| A wet meadow south of the house, bordered by sumac and elderberry, is home to joe-pye weed, ironweed, swamp milkweed, rose mallow and many other plants that like wet feet. |
| Goldenrod presages September as ironweed and wingstem continue to brighten the fields. |
| Followed by Young isham, Rand travelled on by the dusty road, between the parching elder and ironweed, blackberry and love vine. |
| The ironweed was in bloom, and sitting on its purple top the dryfly sang the song of midsummer. |
| Jacqueline sat beneath the cedar, the branch of ironweed again within her hand. |
| A keen botanical eye might also have picked out pepperweed, yellow woodsorrel, soapwort, horseweed, ironweed, black nightshade, sheep sorrel, curly dock, and small eyebane. |
