Latin Name: Vernonia lettermanii ‘Iron Butterfly’
Height: 2 – 3 feet
Spread: 2 – 3 feet
Sunlight: Full Sun
Bloom Time: July to August
Hardiness Zone: 4-9
Description:
Iron Butterfly Ironweed features showy, magenta purple blooms that are magnets to pollinators. It has a compact, densely mounding habit and upright, spear-like, dark green foliage.
Attracts: Bees; Butterflies; Hummingbirds
Other Names: Letterman’s Ironweed; Threadleaf Ironweed