noun
- an aquatic plant with heart-shaped leaves and spikes of blue flowers, commonly found in shallow water and wetlands
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The pickerelweed bloomed along the pond’s edge in late summer.
- Ducks often nest among the pickerelweed in the marsh.
- The botanist identified several species of aquatic plants, including pickerelweed.
- Pickerelweed provides important habitat for wetland wildlife.
- The blue flowers of pickerelweed attract bees and butterflies.
- We paddled through dense stands of pickerelweed in the shallow bay.