Vernonia noveboracensis Edible then brought the plant into

then brought the plant into the trade

or anyone who would like to grow something whose lineage has

describes the sprawling habit

This plant came to the Woodlanders catalog through Jonas Meyer

Vernonia noveboracensis Edible then brought the plant intoIronweed earns the name twice over. The stems are stiff enough to stand through a hurricane season without staking, and the seedheads that follow the flowers rust to the exact color of weathered iron. But the reason to grow Vernonia noveboracensis is the purple: not the tidy lavender of garden asters but a saturated, almost fluorescent violet that arrives in late July and holds into October, riding five to eight feet up on strong green stems above a