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	New York Ironweed
		Ironweed is a common name often given to a many different weeds, however it is most correctly given to those members of the Vernonia genus.
		The ironweeds are primarily weeds of pastures, hay fields, and roadsides and are distributed throughout most of the southeastern United States.
		Several other related ironweed species may be found in similar habitats, and these are primarily distinguished by the presence or absence of basal leaves, the width of the stem leaves, and the presence or absence of toothed leaf margins.
	www.ppws.vt.edu /scott/weed_id/venno.htm (295 words)

	VNPS 1995 Plant of the Year - New York Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ironweed is a member of the Composite family, also known as the Asteraceae.
		Ironweed and asters are readily distinguished if one remembers to look for the yellow disk flowers as well as the purple ray flowers produced by asters.
		New York ironweed is a strikingly beautiful native for the mixed perennial border and is easily cultivated in any rich soil.
	www.vnps.org /ironweed.html (796 words)

	Dancing Rabbit: Newsletter: Spring '04
		Ironweed envisions developing its shared land to house a common building with kitchen, toilet and bathing facilities, greenhouse, root cellar, hang out /activity space and office/work space.
		In determining the style of its organization, Ironweed has chosen to work as a cooperative for the time being, so that in its shared activities members will share equally (one member, one share) in the costs and the benefits.
		This year Ironweed is building a cob kitchen with an attached greenhouse and an attached coop for the chickens.
	www.dancingrabbit.org /newsletter/Newsletter200404_ironweed.html (842 words)

	Baldwin's Ironweed
		aldwin's Ironweed is an early blooming "fall" wildflower of the prairie.
		In other ironweeds, the bracts may have a rounded tip or one that is long and threadlike.
		Ironweeds do not have ray flowers (like the petals on a sunflower), only disc flowers.
	www.gpnc.org /baldwins.htm (374 words)

	Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Part of "Albany Cycle" of novels Ironweed tells the story of an alcoholic man and woman during the Great Depression.
		Ironweed is any plant species of the Vernonia.
		The Homeless of Ironweed: Blossoms on the Crag
	www.freeglossary.com /Ironweed (395 words)

	Ironweed Audio Book
		Ironweed is now available as an audio book.
		Ironweed was authored by William Kennedy and is narrated by Wolfram Kandinsky.
		Ironweed is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/ironweed.php (374 words)

	Smooth Ironweed
		An oligolectic bee of Ironweeds is Melissodes vernoniae.
		The bitter foliage of Ironweed deters consumption by mamamalian herbivores – it is known as an 'increaser' because it is one of the last plants to be eaten in overgrazed pastures.
		Smooth Ironweed is one of the smaller Ironweeds with a compact inflorescence and smooth hairless leaves.
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /prairie/plantx/sm_ironweedx.htm (578 words)

	Vernonia gigantea (altissima) - Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For a tall perennial with rich reddish-purple flowers, Ironweed cannot be beat.
		Ironweed is a common wildflower of moist fields and roadsides and its beauty may therefore be taken for granted.
		Ironweed is very attractive growing with Goldenrod, Joe Pye Weed, Wild Ageratum, Seashore Mallow, and Sunflowers.
	www.sunlightgardens.com /pages/1226.html (142 words)

	Ironweed
		Ironweed is an unusual novel which William Kennedy found difficult to get published.
		It is primarily a novel about survival – about an ordinary man, a bum by his own admission, whose extraordinarily bad luck has brought him to rock bottom but also to the discovery, within himself, of an inner strength that he cannot understand.
		In Ironweed there is mention of a kidnapping in which Francis's oldest son is somehow involved.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/3558.html (1823 words)

	Appalachian Women's Alliance, Ironweed Festival
		Southwest Virginia Poet Patricia Johnson cried out the story of her cousin, G.P., to a hushed crowd gathered in the midst of the Appalachian mountains for the annual Ironweed Festival.
		Ironweed celebrates the artistic talent, regional leadership and courageous lives of Appalachian women through music, storytelling, poetry, dance, and visual arts.
		Ironweed logo t-shirts are available in L and XL in gray, white, frosty iris, or blue.
	www.appalachianwomen.org /ironweed.html (454 words)

	Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Indian-summer days also feature a profusion of blooming wildflowers, such as blazing star, goldenrod, aster, bellflower and yellow ironweed.
		forest by connecting to the ancient skills and lore of the American Indian, will point out the fall-blooming flowers of goldenrod, tall ironweed, some types of...
		Debra Peter, of Ironweed Farm in Oxford, said she has tons of greens in her garden at the end of the season.
	www.wikiverse.org /ironweed (232 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With Ironweed, William Kennedy completes his three novels of Depression-era Albany, wrapping up this study of time, place, and people with an emotionally gripping Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) that focuses on those who call themselves "bums," all of them living apart from society because their dreams have died.
		Scenes in which Francis, cursed with a hair-trigger temper, literally fights to the death alternate with scenes involving Annie and his family; scenes of his childhood and adolescence alternate with sad scenes involving the deaths of his homeless friends.
		A book so good it will leave you reeling, Ironweed tears at the heart without showing a trace of sentimentality, depicting hard lives lived by down-and-out people, most of whom still possess the redeeming virtues of the more saintly who live "normal" lives.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140070206?v=glance (2258 words)

	Ironweed -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ironweed is a 1983 novel by (Click link for more info and facts about William Kennedy) William Kennedy.
		Part of Kennedy's "Albany Cycle" of novels, Ironweed tells the story of an alcoholic, wandering man and woman during the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
		It was directed by (Click link for more info and facts about Hector Babenco) Hector Babenco.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/ironweed.htm (188 words)

	Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adapted by William Kennedy from his novel of the same name, Ironweed is set in the waning years of the Depression.
		A chance for a reconciliation with his wife Carroll Baker comes to naught when a group of local, baseball-bat wielding "reformers" take it upon themselves to drive all bums out of Albany.
		Directed by Hector Babenco, Ironweed is, at 144 minutes, far too long to sustain audience interest in the plight of its characters.
	www.theoscarsite.com /pictures1987/ironweed.htm (194 words)

	Appalachian Women's Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Appalachian Women's Alliance is holding its third annual Ironweed Festival, Saturday, September 11, 1999, from 11 am to 11 pm at the Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem, West Virginia.
		Strategies include leadership development; organizing; publication of the Appalachian Women's Journal, a periodical which enables Appalachian women to speak eloquently and strongly of their own lives; and the Women's Caravan, which will be traveling through Appalachia again in the summer of 2000.
		The Festival reflects the determination of the Appalachian Women's Alliance to become as widespread as the ironweed, a tough purple wildflower which inspired the festival's name.
	www.wvhighlands.org /VoiceAug99/Ironweed.Aug99Voice.html (295 words)

	Vernonia missurica
		Missouri ironweed also is more uniformly and persistently pubescent than tall ironweed.
		Hybrids between this species and tall ironweed have been collected in Clinton, Defiance, and Lucas counties.
		Missouri ironweed is reported also to hybridize with prairie ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata), but this hybrid is not known from Ohio.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /dnap/Abstracts/U-V/vernmiss.htm (275 words)

	Ironweed Film Club - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Ironweed scours the world's best festivals and critics' circles to promote the "underdog films" that audiences love but the major Hollywood studios avoid.
		And Ironweed gives you the chance to join a local film club, or, start your own.
		We hope you'll become an Ironweed charter subscriber and help make the studios stand up and take notice.
	chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=85746 (608 words)

	Vernonia noveboracensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This species of ironweed (sometimes commonly called New York ironweed) is a tall, coarse, upright perennial which typically occurs in the wild in moist thickets, low areas and along streambanks from Massachusetts to Mississippi.
		Somewhat suggestive of Joe Pye weed, except leaves of ironweed are alternate.
		The source of the common name has been varyingly attributed to certain "iron-like" plant qualities including the tough stems, the rusty-tinged color of fading flowers and the rusty colored seeds.
	www.mobot.org /gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=G160 (160 words)

	Ironweed (1987)
		Hector Babenco's bittersweet film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Kennedy, stars Jack Nicholson as Francis Phelan, a drunken former baseball player running away from life and the painful, guilty memories that haunt him.
		Set in the winter of 1938, IRONWEED features Francis wandering the streets of Albany, New York, with his pal Rudy (musician Tom Waits) looking for odd jobs, cheap drinks, and flophouses.
		''Ironweed,'' the new film by Hector Babenco starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, comes about as close to being an unmitigated waste of talent as any movie in recent memory.
	www.starglimpse.com /movies/ironweed_(1987).shtml (316 words)

	Amazon.com: Ironweed (1988) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two years later Bebanco would make Ironweed, and his lead character Frances Phelan (Jack Nicholson) is well past the dreaming stage, the only fantasies he has are of ghosts from his past.
		All the characters in Ironweed are infact dead, they live off their memories, do what they have to do to stay alive as they await their physical death.
		When the end credits roll you feel like you were standing too close to a painting, and now for the first time you are far enough to see it for the sad beautiful image it is. The famed author John Fowles said that we are all poets but few of us can write it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301007883?v=glance (1491 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Ironweed \| William Kennedy
		U.S. Ironweed is an unusual novel which William Kennedy found difficult to get published.
		It is primarily a novel about survival - about an ordinary man, a bum by his own admission, whose extraordinarily bad luck has brought him to rock bottom but also to the discovery, within himself, of an inner strength that he cannot understand.
		Kennedy was also named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/ironweed.html (2029 words)

	Missouri Ironweed
		Disease is not troublesome, except for occasional episodes of mildew during the fall.
		In overgrazed pastures, Ironweed is an 'increaser' because it is one of the last plants to be eaten.
		It is probably the most common species of Ironweed in Illinois.
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /prairie/plantx/ms_ironweedx.htm (513 words)

	Ironweed Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.somethingpersonal.com /search/encyclopedia/Ironweed (281 words)

	Notas da Produção - Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Ironweed" faz parte de uma trilogia publicada por Kennedy, conhecida como Ciclo Albany.
		Kennedy só conseguiu publicar "Ironweed" depois de treze rejeições, com o apoio de Saul Bellow, que havia sido seu professor na Universidade de Porto Rico.
		"Ironweed" começou a ser filmado em fevereiro de 1987, em Albany e seus arredores.
	www.webcine.com.br /notaspro/npironwe.htm (466 words)

	Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jack Nicholson normally plays roles of blistering intensity, but in 'Ironweed', he plays an aging, burned out bum.
		Nonetheless, the story is about a bum who keeps having flashbacks of his younger days when he was fighting working man. Apparently he accidently killed three people in his lifetime.
		All the killings were show in chronological order as 'Ironweed' progressed.
	www.walhello.com /ironweed.html (306 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ironweed [Large Print] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is not my favourite fiction- but I read it, finished it, and loved most of it.
		A thin yet juicy work of art, IRONWEED is considered part of great American story-telling.
		Written in a style almost plain and unaffecting, IRONWEED is a heart-breaking work that needs one's patience to truly understand the greatness and the dramatic tension of Kennedy's work.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0783819668 (1122 words)

	Grandfather Mountain Wildflowers: Ironweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Six foot tall perennial herb produces many flower heads in a loose cluster.
		An inhabitant of stream margins, meadows and low woodlands, Ironweed is native generally to the Southeastern US.
		Ironweed gets its name from its tough, hard to break stem.
	www.grandfather.com /scenery/wildflower-gallery/ironweed.htm (41 words)

	Starforest Quilts - Summer - Beet Greens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ironweed quilt is made from a photo I shot on a foggy morning.
		There is an ironweed trim you can use for window curtains, shower curtains, towels, sheets and pillows.
		No reproduction, in any form, may be used without the prior written consent of Barbara Webster.
	www.starforestquilts.com /ironweed.html (76 words)

	IRONWEED - News & Information
		The new, cultivated variety of ironweed is the first of many plants the Botanic Garden of Western Pennsylvania plans to introduce to gardeners.
		You could have a lovely bog garden in this area with variegated bulrush, cardinal flower, great blue lobelia, New York ironweed and sedges.
		Varieties include many New England native plants: perennials such as wild indigo, bleeding heart, ragged robin, New York ironweed, wolfberry and more; annuals...
	books.daylightonline.com /files/IRONWEED.html (130 words)

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