Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant ironweed plant Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant ...

Our ironweed plants, Vernonia spp., have been buzzing with activity the past several days. They’ve been flowering for more than a week now, providing nectar and pollen for a wide variety of insects. I ...

If a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, would an ironweed by any other name still be as tough-as-nails, bombproof, or utterly indestructible? Whatever you do, don't ask Romeo! It’s so ...

If you are a lover of tall plants and the color purple, I’ve got a plant for you. Ironweed (Vernonia species) are members of the aster family (Asteraceae).

The majority of perennial flowers in a Pennsylvania garden bloom before the growing season’s midpoint, but one overlooked late bloomer — and a native species at that — waits until late summer to bloom ...

* What it is: Ironweed is a late-summer/early-fall purple-blooming perennial flower that doesn’t show up in many gardens, mainly because it’s so tall (five feet ...

Scott Keen of Columbus captured this American Lady butterfly snacking on an Ironweed plant, displaying the patterns on both sides of the wing, during the National Butterfly Count at the Big Oaks ...

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. The genus name, Vernonia, is in honor of an English ...