Vernonia noveboracensis Edible Woodlanders is proud to reintroduce

Woodlanders is proud to reintroduce this rare species to American gardens

almost bluish-white beneath

though centuries of cultivation have carried Lantana camara into warm gardens and roadsides around the globe until the plant is now genuinely pantropic

then brought the plant into the trade

over handsome gray-green

Vernonia noveboracensis Edible Woodlanders is proud to reintroduceIronweed 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