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New York Ironweed, Tall herb, 3-10 feet tall. Leaves lance-shaped, finely toothed, not opposite each other. Flowers tiny, tubular, 5-parted, deep red violet to blue violet, 30 to 50 in a flowerhead. Flowerheads in loose clusters. Blooms in late summer. A beautiful native plant of damp places; occasional in open sunny moist places in the Park. Sometimes confused with Joe-Pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum), but that plant has paler flowers which are much smaller and much more crowded, and leaves in whorls of 3-7.
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