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Pontederia cordata ~ pickerel weed

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Characteristics:

• OBL

• Michigan C Value: 8

• glossy, narrow, somewhat arrowhead shaped leaves have rounded cordate bases and rise well above the water surface

• small, tubular blue flowers are densely packed into erect flower stalks rising well above the water surface

• plants flower freely all summer

• starchy seeds with distinctive toothed ridges

• flower spikes droop after bloom, releasing the seeds

• marshes and marshy borders of lakes, ponds, tamarack swamps, rivers, and streams

• often abundant where found

• native