Your ironweed was a monster last year, too cool You are very observant, that is a death grip on that child’s shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Blast « Fairegarden] Reference

You do need some ironweed and I would like some more too.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Clues « Fairegarden] Reference

A young ironweed, Vernonia spp., blooms at a reasonable height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sad To See Summer Go – Say Hello To Fall « Fairegarden] Reference

The native ironweed, Vernonia altissima has what it takes to make the cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dying Well-Aging Attractively « Fairegarden] Reference

That is good soil, I remember what the ironweed looked like there, much larger than mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheffies « Fairegarden] Reference

I love the ironweed seed heads and fothergilla is my hands-down favorite shrub for fall color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dying Well-Aging Attractively « Fairegarden] Reference

Oh my, beauties all, but that ironweed against the crimson of that blood grass is simply wonderful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dying Well-Aging Attractively « Fairegarden] Reference

She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

If we could only get the seeds to germinate that have been saved, this whole portion of the hill could be covered in ironweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Clues « Fairegarden] Reference

The itty bitty teeny weeny seedlings are ironweed babies, Vernonia gigantea? that were discovered at the end of the knot garden just this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faireluriegarden-Someday « Fairegarden] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Clues « Fairegarden] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sad To See Summer Go – Say Hello To Fall « Fairegarden] Reference

Tall ironweed reproduces from seeds and buds on the crown of a deep, vigorous taproot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com] Reference

This brilliant purple ironweed attracts butterflies in a wide range of soils and conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.thesunchronicle.com] Reference

The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference

Tall ironweed control is possible when herbicides are applied to plants less than 12-15 inches tall that have not been mowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com] Reference

Within the fence everything is an impenetrable thicket of weeds and vines -- blackberry, thistle, ironweed, pokeweed, elder, golden-rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Kentucky Cardinal] Reference

Tall ironweed is distributed widely across the eastern half of the United States and is found in low damp areas of pastures and roadsides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com] Reference

Apparently he has a tape-player of some sort, because every time I pass along the gate "Madame George" is pressing out faintly through the ironweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Recording] Reference

The aster and goldenrod, the dried ironweed and sumach, the red rose hips and magenta pokeberry stalks looked dead enough now, dead and dreary upon the weary, weary road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

The wild flowers disappeared, and only in the bottom of the draws and gullies grew a few of the very toughest and hardiest: shoestring, and ironweed, and snow-on-the-mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Pioneers!] Reference

Earlier in the week I'd seen large stations of ironweed (Vernonia altissima) in the Pine Barrens bog savannahs, which are such a vibrant fuschia they're visible from a quarter mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly] Reference

In summers past, I've seen beautiful stands of Joe-pye intermingled with the rich purple New York ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, in the open area at the intersection of Raccoon Road and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoky Mountain News] Reference

The pasture was flooded with light; every clump of ironweed and snow-on-the-mountain threw a long shadow, and the golden light seemed to be rippling through the curly grass like the tide racing in.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Pioneers!] Reference

But they soon reached the gnawed bones of those who had ascended before them, scattered about a small plain that was overgrown with ironweed: and through and over the tall purple blossoms came to destroy the boys the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

I’m actually happy to see the ironweed is smaller this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Blast « Fairegarden] Reference

And you, hand over that ironweed pouch or so help me, Gilean, I'll - ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of Summer Flame]

"Mechanism for the Inhibition of Apple Juice Enzymatic Browning by Palo Fierro (Desert ironweed) Honey Extract and other Natural Compounds".    From Wordnik.com.  [BeverageDaily RSS] Reference

And three cheers for ironweed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faireluriegarden-Someday « Fairegarden] Reference

That ironweed is an awesome color!.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Playbook-GBBD « Fairegarden] Reference

Common name: Tall ironweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com] Reference

Tall ironweed is rarely eaten by animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com] Reference

The towering ironweed the scythe had spared.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Child-World] Reference

Like the ironweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Playbook-GBBD « Fairegarden] Reference