#new york ironweed

[vandaliatraveler]

The secret life of ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis).

[faguscarolinensis]

Vernonia noveboracensis / New York Ironweed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[christophersirgo]

New York Ironweed, Sippo Valley Trail - 2022-08-04

[gardenvarietygay]

Sixty-four-ish plugs later and one little patch of my yard is starting to look like a garden. None of them look like anything right now besides the snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata) which I got for free. Please ignore the weeds, I’ve done four major weedings in this area alone. The plan is that all of these plants will grow into each other so densely I won’t need to plant a ground cover (hahaha we’ll see). The rectangular whitish-grey lump in the middle of this bed is half of a trough planter that froze solid and cracked in half on the diagonal, I thought it was too funny to waste so I plopped it in here as a shelter for anybody passing through.

Also it’s hard to tell but my “lawn” is way too tall for this suburb. I keep the front much shorter but I’m the only person who sees lightning bugs in their backyard so I’m keep on not mowing the back. Eventually the front lawn will be replaced with shrubs and flowers anyway.

Because I'm a landscaper and work in a nursery, everyone assumes my own garden must be spectacular. It's... this. I put my clients' gardens first and if I have any time leftover, I tend my own. This is also my first real growing season in this house and I've spent a lot of it fixing problems previous owners created (invasive clematis on the fence, a huge pile of sand in the middle of the yard where they put a chicken run that they then took with them in the move, regrading the slope around the foundation, putting downspouts on the gutters, ripping out a half-formed brick patio made out of the wrong materials improperly set, etc. etc. etc.) I also inherited the "river rock landscaping" that you see in this photo. I hate rock mulch because it's hard on the plants growing in it but also because it makes everything hotter. I did my best to work it into the soil in this area and I'll continue topdressing with organic matter periodically to hopefully cover it up. Anyway, a lot of these plants won't bloom until fall so there's a good chance I'll get some flowers this year, even if it's in October. Hopefully next year I'll actually have something to show for my efforts.

The stars of this bed are:

Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)

Blacksamson coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)

Blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis)

Dense liatris (Liatris spicata)

Flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)

New York aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)

Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fascisculata)

Pitcher sage (Salvia azurea)

Showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)

Snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata)

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

Western ironweed (Vernonia baldwinii)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

[fourthage]

The sun has moved around from the back, so I put in the last of the plants from this nursery trip. Ironweed is another late summer/fall bloomer and pairs well with my Joe Pye Weed. This is not the New York variety (noveboracensis) which gets seven feet tall and can spread aggressively. (If only I had the space for a real wildflower area…)

And here’s a comparison shot of the lantana. First picture is its size when planted at the end of April, second picture is now, four months later, at the end of August

[scriptflorist]

Hey! I love your blog so much, and I'm so happy that I found it (it's helped a lot)! I was wondering if you could do a list of flowers that mean (or fall into the category of/are similar to): Obsession, Obsessive love, 'til death do us part, I want your attention, I belong to you, you belong to me, etc., etc. Along with this, I'd also like to know what flowers are native to New Jersey (And also which ones bloom in the fall, if any?) Thank you, and have a lovely day!

That should be possible with some creativity given that obsession and bonding don’t exist as meanings themselves, but it leans well enough into the Victorian flower language to get something out of it still. Hope there’s something in here that works for your story.

arbor vitae – live for me, unchanging friendship

baby’s breath – everlasting love, innocence, pure of heart

bay leaf – I change but in death/dying

broom-rape – union

carnation (pink) – I will/I’ll never forget you, women’s love

cedar leaf – I live for thee

clover (white) – think of me

columbine – I cannot give thee up, folly, desertion

columbine (purple) – resolved to win

cowslip (american) – divine beauty, you are my angel, you are my divinity

currant – thy frown will kill me, thankfulness

daisy (double) – affection, I reciprocate your affection

daphane (rose) – I desire to please

eschscholzia – do not refuse me

euphorbia – persistence

fleur-de-lis – I burn, flame

foxglove – I am not ambitious for myself but for you, a wish, stateliness, occupation, insincerity, youth

furze – love for all seasons/occasions

gladiolus – you pierce my heart, generosity, I’m sincere, flower of the gladiators

heart’s ease – you occupy my thoughts, forget me not, think of me, thoughts

heart’s ease (purple) – you occupy my thoughts

hemlock – you will be my death

honeysuckle – generous and devoted affection, bonds of love, the bond of love, devotion, I would not answer hastily, fidelity

honeysuckle (coral) – the colour of my fate

honeysuckle (wild) – generous and devoted love

japonica – sincerity, symbol of love

jasmine (indian) – I attach myself to you, attachment, separation

laurestine – a token, I die if neglected, delicate attention

mallow (syrian) – consumed by love, persuasion

rose (carolina) – love is dangerous

shepherd’s purse – I offer you my all

spindle tree – your charms are engraven on my heart

tulip – (a) declaration of love, perfect lover, fame, beautiful eyes

tulip (red) – declaration of love

virginia creeper – I cling to you both in sunshine and in shade

Plants native to New Jersey that bloom in fall/autumn:

allegheny monkey flower

american angelica

american arrowhead

american blue vervain

american lotus

american water-willow

ashy sunflower

bigleaf aster

black-eyed susan

bluebell

blue bead lily

blue cohosh

blue mistflower

blue star

blue wood aster

bottle gentian

bowman’s root

brown-eyed susan

bunchberry

bushy aster

canada goldenrod

canada wild ginger

canadian violet

cardinal flower

carolina geranium

caroline redroot

closed bottle gentian

coastal plain joe-pye weed

common boneset

common evening primrose

cow parsnip

crooked aster

cutleaf coneflower

cup plant

downy skullcap

early goldenrod

false aster

false sunflower

field thistle

flat-topped white aster

foam flower

fringed bleeding heart

fringed loosestrife

gayfeather

golden crownbeard

grass-leaved goldenrod

grassy arrowhead

gray goldenrod

great blue lobelia

hairy aster

hardy hibiscus

heath aster

hoary vervain

horizontal calico aster

jerusalem artichoke

joe-pye weed

late boneset

marsh betony

maryland golden aster

maximilian sunflower

meadow phlox

narrowleaf mountain mint

new england aster

new york aster

new york ironweed

nodding lady’s tresses

orange fringed orchid

orange jewelweed

patridge pea

pearly everlasting

pink tickseed

prairie sagebush

purple-head sneezeweed

purple mountain saxifrage

red baneberry

rock harlequin

rough goldenrod

salt heliotrope

sawtooth sunflower

scarlet bee balm

seashore mallow

seaside goldenrod

selfheal

showy black-eyed susan

showy goldeneye

showy goldenrod

showy tick trefoil

slender buch clover

slender dayflower

smooth beggartick

smooth blue aster

sneezeweed

spotted joe-pye weed

stiff goldenrod

stiff sunflower

swamp sunflower

swamp thistle

sweet goldenrod

sweetscent

sweet-scented joe-pye weed

tall boneset

tall cinquefoil

tall goldenrod

ten-petaled sunflower

threadleaf coreopsis

tickseed

virginia meadow beauty

water arum

western sunflower

wild bergamot

wild cucumber

wild potato vine

wild senna

wingstem

white baneberry

white goldenrod

white panicle aster

white snakeroot

white turtlehead

white wood aster

whorled milkweed

woodland sunflower

wreath goldenrod

yellow jewelweed

yellow pond lily

This website gives a breakdown by county in form of excel lists, albeit it doesn’t say whether the plants bloom in fall or not.

https://npsnj.org/native-plants/where-to-buy-natives/plant-lists/

– Mod Jana

Disclaimer

This blog is intended as writing advice only. This blog and its mods are not responsible for accidents, injuries or other consequences of using this advice for real world situations or in any way that said advice was not intended.

https://www.gardenia.net/native-plants/new-jersey

[aisling-saoirse]

Vernonia noveboracensis - New York Ironweed

[deepartnature]

Ironweed - Héctor Babenco (1987)

“Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by William Kennedy, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, with Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Nathan Lane and Tom Waits in supporting roles. The story concerns the relationship of a homeless couple: Francis, an alcoholic, and Helen, a terminally ill woman during the years following the Great Depression. Major portions of the film were shot on location in Albany, New York, including Jay Street at Lark Street, Albany Rural Cemetery, and the Miss Albany Diner on North Broadway. ...”

Wikipedia

Cult Movie: Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep shine in underrated Depression-era drama Ironweed

NY Times: 'Ironweed,' From Hector Babenco

YouTube: IRONWEED (Eureka Classics)

[backyardgardeningadventures]

Aug 2:

The light coming across our backyard garden was beautiful this morning. This is year 3 of our rain garden. I took the Instant Rain Garden class @mtcubacenter August 2019. A 1 hour class where we were given 5 plants to start our rain garden and told to start by picking a wet spot and digging a hole. Our class’s 5 plants common and Latin names:

#swamprosemallow #hibiscusmoscheutos #commonvervain #verbenahastata #goldenragwort #packeraaurea #switchgrass #panicumvirgatum #newyorkaster #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae

I added a few others including one of my now favorites- New York ironweed- #vernonianoveboracensis - 8 foot tall with purple flowers next to our seed feeder.

Second image - a cat bird at the feeder was watching me photograph 😌

[dendroica]

Monarch (by me)

[clemsfilmdiary]

Ironweed (1987, Hector Babenco)

1/31/18

[hqcreations]

Native Northeast Plants: New York Iron Weed

Vernonia noveboracensis, Asteraceae family

Ironweed supposedly gets its name from its long strong stems that stand erect throughout the winter. Eh, I don’t this the moniker does it justice. Just look at this gorgeous brilliant purple flowers that’s loved by native bees. But oh, they do also sometimes come in white!

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NOTE: This plant might not be exclusively native to the Northeast of the United States and could be native in a wider range of locations. I live in zone 6 area in the Northeast of the US so that is the lens of my focus.

[cherish-a-bee]

Welcome to the Cherish Lounge, A Summary of This Week's Exciting Bee News:

1. The Food and Agriculture Organization has unveiled its plan to host a virtual conference for World Bee Day on May 20th, 2021. The theme, Bee engaged – Build Back Better for Bees, will outline how our community can help restore and enhance the role of pollinators. Source

2. Scientists from the Mt.Cuba Center have found a cultivated garden with fifteen native bee species that migrated to the area, including a Hylaeus Masked Faced Bee! (Learn about the endangered species here) Their survey suggests that if enough home gardeners plant targeted plants, the bees’ habitat loss will be mitigated, and the bees will show up. Our community is changing the world, feel proud! :D

These plants were the top species magnets: black willow, a goldenrod named Euthamia graminifolia, Virginia bluebell and New York ironweed. Source

[Bee Image by kie-ker from Pixabay]

[cedar-glade]

I love Oklahoma’s Ironweeds.

Vernonia baldwinii

Baldwin’s central plains ironweed.

Oklahoma is a Vernonia spp. hot spot, the diversity there is overwhelming, especially with hybrids. 8 total species are present in the state with one introduced species. Multiple hybrids are possible with range overlaps. Species of Vernonia are nice to ID though, foliage differences are  noticeable enough to eyeball. Some species have, prominent stature and height like that of New York and Giant. Midsized broad leaved ironweeds have notable variation on abaxial hair and leaf shape. This species, pictured above, has fairly short hair on the underside of it’s leaves and pretty broad leaves as far as the medium sized ironweeds go; Vernonia missurica has a thick and noticeable indumentum with leaves similar in shape to the broader/lanceolate to that of  V. fasciculata which has pitted sparsely pubescent abaxial surfaces. As for the others, they are what I call the linear leaf group; V. arkansana’s pubescent gloss and upright posture is insane, V. lettermannii looks like if you asked a botanist to draw Amsonia hubrichtii with Liatris spp. flowers, V. texana appearance is usually not overtly clumped and much smaller than V. arkansana. The southwestern plains Ironweed, Vernonia marginata, also shares an Amsonia hubrichtii look to it but is noticeably branched corymb’d at the apex when in flower, both V. lettermannii and V. marginata are range restricted. 

With that said, the real kicker is the phyllaries, Vernonia spp. are known to have some of the most distinguishable looking bract arrangements on the planet as far as Asteraceae is concerned (see V. arkansana for example) .

There are 6 species of Ironweed noted, as having native ranges in the Wichita Mountains, From the original only four were known to be native to the region. 

Vernonia texana and Vernonia arkansana are considered extirpated from Wichita and now associated as uncommon in the Ouachita.

The next species pretty isolated, widely spread but with a specific habit,  is the seldom documented in Ouachita Mountains semi-narrow endemic that is extirpated from the Wichita and hasn’t been seen or spoken of there outside of old records, Vernonia lettermannii. 

Vernonia missurica, Vernonia baldwinii, and Vernonia fasciculata are still present in parts of the Wichita with Vernonia baldwinii being the most common.

[porcelainapparition]

“Ironweed House”

Singerlands, New York

circa 1876

[rjzimmerman]

Plants growing along I-65 near the Tennessee and Alabama border.  Swath mowing allows wildflowers to bloom and attracts pollinators. Credit: William DeShazer for The New York Times

Excerpt from this New York Times Op-Ed:

A few years ago I started noticing wildflowers blooming beside the highway: ironweed and goldenrod and snakeroot and black-eyed Susan. The first time it happened the sun was in my eyes as I drove west toward Memphis, and a late summer drought was filling the air with dust motes. For a moment I thought I was imagining flowers where flowers had never been before. A daydream on a lonesome stretch of highway as twilight came on.

There was nothing unusual about the flowers themselves — they’re the plants that commonly bloom along Nashville’s greenways during late summer — but these flowers weren’t in a park or a nature preserve. They were growing right on the interstate median and on the side of the road. I figured the state’s Department of Transportation simply hadn’t gotten around to mowing yet.

Then I started to see the flowers in springtime, too, and all summer. The decision not to mow, it turns out, was deliberate. The Tennessee Department of Transportation — like many other state transportation departments across the country — now practices swath mowing, a strategy that allows wildflowers to bloom unmolested in rural areas till after the first frost. Instead of clearing the entire space between the road and the right-of-way fence, mowers clear only a 16-foot-wide area next to the road.

The mowed swath preserves clear sightlines for drivers while allowing wildflowers to grow in the deep margins between the mowed area and the fence. After the wildflowers have gone to seed, and the seeds have had time to ripen and drop, mowers clear the entire area again to keep trees from becoming established too close to the road. In Tennessee, this plan began as an experimental program in 2013 and now encompasses all rural highways managed by the state. That’s 13,807 miles of blooming flowers across Tennessee.

The flowers are beautiful, of course, and there’s a practical benefit to the plan, too: Reducing the frequency of mowing saves money. But neither beauty nor cost-cutting is the primary motive for swath mowing. The real reason behind the change is a concern for the health of the state’s pollinators — butterflies, honeybees, native bees, beetles and other insects.