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pickerelweed

n. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds [syn: pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata]

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After she passes a wrecking shop and a market and a tiny post office, she spies the turnoff James Morris has told her about-a swampy stretch of pickerelweed and brackish water that was once a swimming hole with exceedingly warm temperatures.

At the edge of an open pond stood yard-high pickerelweeds with glossy spadelike leaves as long as a spread-fingered hand, the blue flowers just forming on the upright spike.