Associations to the word «Ironweed»

Wiktionary

IRONWEED, noun. Any of certain species of the genus Vernonia of forbs and shrubs.

Dictionary definition

IRONWEED, 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope