Vernonia fasciculata

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| status_system = TNC

| genus = Vernonia

| species = fasciculata

| authority = Michx.{{Cite web|title=ITIS - Report: Vernonia fasciculata|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38629#null|access-date=2021-11-02|website=www.itis.gov}}

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite web|title=Vernonia fasciculata Michx. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:258347-1|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en}}

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Cacalia corymbosa Kuntze
Cacalia fasciculata (Michx.) Kuntze
Plectreca corymbosa Raf.
Serratula corymbosa Poir.
Vernonia corymbosa Schwein.
Vernonia fasciculata subsp. corymbosa (Schwein.) S.B.Jones
Vernonia fasciculata var. corymbosa (Schwein.) Daniels
Vernonia fasciculata var. nebraskensis Gleason
Vernonia schweinitzii Steud.

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Vernonia fasciculata, the smooth ironweed or common ironweed,{{Cite book|last=Mohlenbrock|first=Robert H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hid6CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA155|title=Vascular Flora of Illinois: A Field Guide, Fourth Edition|date=2013-12-06|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-3209-0|language=en}} or prairie ironweed{{Cite web|title=Vernonia fasciculata (Prairie Ironweed): Minnesota Wildflowers|url=https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/prairie-ironweed|access-date=2021-11-01|website=www.minnesotawildflowers.info|language=en}} is a species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae.{{Cite book |last=Mohlenbrock|first=Robert H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tQNBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |title=Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3 |date=2017-08-08 |publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-3605-0 |language=en}} It is native to Manitoba in Canada and the north-central U.S.A.

Vernonia fasciculata inhabits areas with moist soils and prairies.{{Cite book|last1=Britton|first1=Nathaniel Lord|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Kg7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA303|title=An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada and the British Possessions: Apocynaceae to Compositae (dogbane to thistle) (1898)|last2=Brown|first2=Addison|date=1898|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|language=en}} It flowers in July to September.

Description

Vernonia fasciculata is a herbaceous perennial that grows {{cvt|2|-|4|ft}} tall with unbranched stems, which end in an inflorescences with magenta flowers arranged in a dense corymb.{{Cite web|title=Smooth Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)|url=https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/sm_ironweedx.htm|access-date=2021-11-01|website=www.illinoiswildflowers.info}}

Cultivation

V. fasciculata is winter hardy in USDA zones 4-9, it is planted in full sun and used in rain gardens and as a naturalized plant because of its showy flower display, it is deer tolerant and adaptable to wet soils.{{Cite web|title=Vernonia fasciculata - Plant Finder|url=https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=277257|access-date=2021-11-01|website=www.missouribotanicalgarden.org}}

References

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