Ironweed

Your ironweed was a monster last year, too cool You are very observant, that is a death grip on that child’s shirt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The native ironweed, Vernonia altissima has what it takes to make the cut. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh my, beauties all, but that ironweed against the crimson of that blood grass is simply wonderful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The itty bitty teeny weeny seedlings are ironweed babies, Vernonia gigantea? that were discovered at the end of the knot garden just this week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A young ironweed, Vernonia spp., blooms at a reasonable height. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I love the ironweed seed heads and fothergilla is my hands-down favorite shrub for fall color. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now the ironweed is not sold either, but that is because it grows everywhere in open fields, considered a large weed by most. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Aronia melancarpa ‘Viking’ black berries are still hanging on while the white snakeroot, Ageratina altissima climbs to the sky just to the left of the ironweed, before unclasping its buds for insect delights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we climb the steps that lead to the knot garden at the top of the hill, we stop to admire the ironweed, Vernonia altissima opening its buds to show that dark purple hue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If we could only get the seeds to germinate that have been saved, this whole portion of the hill could be covered in ironweed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You do need some ironweed and I would like some more too. ❋ Unknown (2008)

- That is good soil, I remember what the ironweed looked like there, much larger than mine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

She rose and walked beyond the orchard to the margin of the woods where the tall autumn flowers — goldenrod and ironweed and joe-pye weed — were beginning to bloom yellow and indigo and iron grey. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

She rose and walked beyond the orchard to the margin of the woods where the tall autumn flowers -- goldenrod and ironweed and joe-pye weed -- were beginning to bloom yellow and indigo and iron grey. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (1997)

The summer heat had broken, the paths were lined with fall wildflowers, which, thanks to that summer with my mother, I could name as we walked along: partridge pea, boneset, goldenrod, ironweed. ❋ Fention Johnson (1996)