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• n  any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue

• vernonia

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• ‘Ironweed’ author Kennedy headlines Stair Gallery event
  Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy, who wrote “Ironweed,” and fiction writer Elisa Albert held a free reading of their literary works at the Stair Gallery on Thursday.
  Nov. 8, 2013 - Register-Star