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New York Ironweed
Vernonia Noveboracensis
Another plant sculpture had many separate, thin petals, which formed a geometrical shape, a kind of sphere, like a frozen sparkler. Some petals that were reachable from the street were fitted with an artificial eye, through which one could see specific locations in the city or in the vicinity, where these plants were growing.
Dimly, like through a telescope, there were places at dusk or in the pouring rain, meadows in the fog or ponds in the daylight. It even seemed to me, that I could recognize a small vacant lot in Harlem, where I had passed the day before.
Intersection at Canal Street.
Dimly to see, like through a telescope: Artificial eyes turned the Ironweed plant to a window to other places.
A Screen with a map showed the real plant's location in the NY State.
Image material by Lasse Korsgaard via deviantart and unknown via Planetarium Rodewisch, map via New York Flora Atlas.
New York Ironweed (Vernonia Noveboracensis), Midtown at 32nd Street and 5th Avenue.
New York Ironweed is a native plant, which grows in coastal areas of New England and New York in wet lowland forests, swamps and fallows.
It probably derives its common name, Ironweed, from the toughness of its stem and root tissues. On the other hand, the name Ironweed may come from its medicinal use by Native Americans as a "blood tonic".
Appearance of the Ironweed plant at Prince Street, NoLita, Manhattan.