{"id":397,"date":"2015-03-25T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:26:27","slug":"prairie-ironweed-vernonia-fasciculata-ssp-fasciculata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Prairie ironweed <em>(Vernonia fasciculata<\/em> ssp. <em>fasciculata)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prairie_ironweed_fasciculata_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prairie_ironweed_fasciculata_10-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Prairie ironweed (ssp. fasciculata)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prairie_ironweed_fasciculata_10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prairie_ironweed_fasciculata_10-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prairie_ironweed_fasciculata_10.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prairie ironweed <em>(Vernonia fasciculata)<\/em> is common in Minnesota in the lower two-thirds of the state and in the northwestern border counties. Its showy, reddish-purple flower heads appear from July to September on wet and moderately moist prairies. It is pollinated mostly by butterflies, skippers, and long-tongued bees.<\/p>\n<p>This species is identified by the hairless leaf undersurface that is dotted with pitted glands. When held up to the sun or other light the glands appear as translucent dots.<\/p>\n<p>There are two subspecies of prairie ironwood, both of which are found in Minnesota. The eastern subspecies, ssp. <em>fasciculata<\/em>, is identified by the longer stem; longer, narrower leaves; and upper leaf surface that is smooth to the touch.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_ironweed_(fasciculata).html\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_ironweed_(fasciculata).html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/prairie_ironweed_(fasciculata).html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=397\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prairie ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata) is common in Minnesota in the lower two-thirds of the state and in the northwestern border counties. Its showy, reddish-purple flower heads appear from July to September on wet and moderately moist prairies. It is pollinated mostly by butterflies, skippers, and long-tongued bees. This species is identified by the hairless leaf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}