Then while the woods stand freckled and the ironweed waves its sprays of dusty purple, a touch of languor steals into the sky, and the horizon veils itself with a mist that is sweetly melancholy.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Within the fence everything is an impenetrable thicket of weeds and vines-blackberry, thistle, ironweed, pokeweed, elder, golden-rod.
"A Kentucky Cardinal"
James Lane Allen
He made another attempt to enter the house but loud squeals and rustling followed and he returned to the ironweed plant and was still eating when observations were halted.
"Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana"
Henry S. Fitch Dennis G. Rainey