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Ironweed is a large plant with upright stalks and showy flowers that bloom in the summer and fall. Here's why it's the perfect plant for your garden.
Native ironweed makes an attractive accent in flower gardens. Its nectar and pollen benefits honey bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Ironweed is a large plant with upright stalks and showy flowers that bloom in the summer and fall. Here's why it's the perfect plant for your garden.
Native Plant: Wild bergamot's kinship to mint makes it ideal for cooking, medicinal uses The giant ironweed has been known to grow up to 12 feet tall and 6 feet wide; however, it usually grows 3 ...
Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Vernonia gigantea, giant (or tall) ironweed, is a ...
Tall Joe Pye weed and New York ironweed, cut coneflower, and cardinal lobelia are among the familiar native plants in the Lyndhurst Community of Faith Church pollinator garden.
Ironweed – Vernonia lettermannii ‘Iron Butterfly’ – narrow leafed or thread leaf ironweed is another Arkansas native. Growing two to three feet tall and wide, it has purple blooms from ...
Flowering from July to September, giant ironweed is named for the toughness of its stem and the rusty color of its flowers as they age, Giant ironweed native plant an excellent source of nectar ...