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Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue
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ironweed
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n. any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue [syn: vernonia ]
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Ironweed or iron weed may refer to: Ironweed (novel) , a 1983 novel by William Kennedy Ironweed (film) , a 1987 adaptation of Kennedy's novel
Usage examples of ironweed.
Everything was as it should be: the strong smell of sunflowers and ironweed in the dew, the clear blue and gold of the sky, the evening star, the purr of the milk into the pails, the grunts and squeals of the pigs fighting over their supper.
Heather clung to the rocks, and whitebark pines growing low to the earth provided nurseries for ironweed and mistletoe.
She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield.
Overnight, abandoned cornfields bloomed with head-high purple ironweed, burning and blinding and visionary.
The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation.
Kane and I were sitting on his side steps overlooking his urban garden of sooty dirt, broken glass and ironweed as he smoked his evening cigarette.