Another major problem in the region is water hyacinth, also known as pickerelweed, which is choking Lake Victoria, Africa's largest.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

They usually fill with marsh plants such as arrowhead, water arum, and pickerelweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York] Reference

Dwarf papyrus had similar total biomass as pickerelweed, but less shoot biomass.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

The NRS units planted with calla lily had lower nutrient removal than canna and pickerelweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

The dainty, demure lavender blooms of Nuttall's lobelia (Lobelia nuttallii) and purple torches of pickerelweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly] Reference

Cattail, wild rice, pickerelweed, and arrowhead are common and help support a large and diverse range of bird and fish species, among other wildlife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

NRS units planted with dwarf papyrus had similar nutrient recovery rate as pickerelweed, but much less total N and P were removed as a result of less water consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

The results showed that 'Australia' canna had the greatest water consumption, total biomass production, and aboveground nitrogen and phosphorous content, followed by pickerelweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Two beneficial plants Cassani said can be installed around lake margins are bulrush - sometimes called buggywhips - and lower growing pickerelweed, which produces beautiful blue flower spikes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

With wild rice, wild celery, pickerelweed and other aquatic plants offering food and bulrushes, cattails and open water providing the habitat, the Winnebago system developed a national reputation as a haven for waterfowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

"This is our wetlands area where we grow cultures of pickerelweed, arrowhead, and red mangroves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Body Wave]

(canna, iris, calla lily, and dwarf papyrus) compared with those of wetland plants (arrow arum, pickerelweed, and bulltongue arrowhead) in three experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

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 pickerelweed, 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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

pickerelweed, 91, 112, 116, 129, 176, 189.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference