In July, the blue pontederia or pickerel-weed blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river, and swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The blue pickerel-weed (_Pontederia_) is the type of a family of which there are few common representatives (Fig. 84, _I_, _K_). ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)
Among the productions of the river's margin, I must not forget the pickerel-weed, which grows just on the edge of the water, and shoots up ❋ Various (N/A)
But if the stream be too deep and wide, and the lilies are anchored far out among their broad pads, -- a floral Venice, with the blue spikes and arrowy leaves of the pickerel-weed for campaniles and towers, -- there are yet "lilies of the field" over which you may profitably meditate, remembering that Solomon Ben-David was not so arrayed. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were water-lilies both golden and waxy-white, and blue spikes of pickerel-weed, and clumps of fragrant musk. ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)
Broad leaves of the arrow-head and pickerel-weed give shelter to the coot, bobbing her head and neck as she makes nervous journeys through the water, sometimes scratching a long streak across its mirror-like surface as she uses both feet and wings in her haste to escape from the lone pedestrian. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)
The pale, golden-hearted arrow-head neighbored the homespun pickerel-weed, and -- oh, mysterious glory from an oozy bed! ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
There were banks now, and they were fringed with green borders of aquatic plants, rushes, and broad spatter-docks, and flags, and arrow-heads, and marsh-marigolds, and round-leaved pond-lilies, and pointed pickerel-weed. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
The streams shrunken to rivulets that trickled through crevices between broad flat stones and oozed through beds of water-cress and crow-foot, horse-mint and pickerel-weed, the wells low, cisterns empty, and recourse for water to barrels and the sunken ponds. ❋ John Fox (1891)
They made as constant a part of the ocean's border as the pads or pickerel-weed do of that of a pond. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Pontederia cordata* (pickerel-weed), only near Oldtown, 1857. ❋ Unknown (1858)
The pickerel-weed marks with blue spikes of flowers the points where small tributary brooks flow in, and along the dusky windings of those brooks cardinal-flowers with a scarlet splendor paint the tropics upon New England green. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)
The pure white blossoms of the arrow-head stood in the shallower parts, and a few cardinals on the margin still proudly surveyed themselves reflected in the water, though the latter, as well as the pickerel-weed, was now nearly out of blossom. ❋ Unknown (1849)
Among the productions of the river's margin, I must not forget the pickerel-weed, which grows just on the edge of the water, and shoots up a long stalk crowned with a blue spire, from among large green leaves. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
By the way there came up a shower, which compelled me to stand half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and wearing my handkerchief for a shed; and when at length I had made one cast over the pickerel-weed, standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly in the shadow of a cloud, and the thunder began to rumble with such emphasis that I could do no more than listen to it. ❋ Unknown (1854)
