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Definition of Ironweed
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Ironweed
1. n. A tall weed with purplish flowers (Vernonia Noveboracensis). The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
Definition of Ironweed
1. Noun. Any of certain species of the genus ''Vernonia'' of forbs and shrubs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ironweed
1. a shrub [n -S] - See also: shrub
Medical Definition of Ironweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ironweed
Literary usage of Ironweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Tawny ironweed; Appalachian ironweed Herbaceous perennial Dry fields, open slopes or
... New York ironweed Herbaceous perennial Stream banks and wet fields, ..."
2. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Achenes smooth, the pappus purple-tinged. (Fig. 289.) Means of control the same
as for Tall ironweed. Habitat: Dry prairies; waste places. ..."
3. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"... as in the thistle and ironweed (Fig. 342), or the marginal flowers of the head
may be ligulate, thus increasing the conspicuousness of the inflorescence ..."
4. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"239 57. Lower surface of leaves smooth or sparsely hairy; involucral bracts not
recurved. TALL ironweed (Vernonia altissima) p. ..."
5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Tawny ironweed; Appalachian ironweed Herbaceous perennial Dry fields, open slopes or
... New York ironweed Herbaceous perennial Stream banks and wet fields, ..."
6. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Achenes smooth, the pappus purple-tinged. (Fig. 289.) Means of control the same
as for Tall ironweed. Habitat: Dry prairies; waste places. ..."
7. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"... as in the thistle and ironweed (Fig. 342), or the marginal flowers of the head
may be ligulate, thus increasing the conspicuousness of the inflorescence ..."
8. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"239 57. Lower surface of leaves smooth or sparsely hairy; involucral bracts not
recurved. TALL ironweed (Vernonia altissima) p. ..."
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