ironweed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ironweed
Example Sentences
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When I arrived, the meadow burned purple with ironweed.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
They grow assorted milkweeds, asters, elderberry, mountain mint, joe-pye weed, goldenrods, white snakeroot and ironweed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
They will use the sun to figure out the direction, and they will fill up on nectar from aster, ironweed and daisy flowers.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
These plants were the top species magnets: black willow, a goldenrod named Euthamia graminifolia, Virginia bluebell and New York ironweed.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021
Lexin'ton, nearly two thousand population—the biggest town in the State—an' Bourbonton a-treadin' right 'long on her heels—ovah four hundurd people now, an' a-growin' lak a ironweed.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
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