Plant extracts contain weak reducing agents, which usually reduce ions of silver, gold, platinum ... Iron ions are reduced by strong reducing agents with hydrazine, borohydride and in the presence of an inert gas of argon or nitrogen. Then, the resulting metal nanoparticles do not oxidize. To analyze the end of the reaction, it is useless to use UV-visible spectroscopy. Extracts contain substances absorbing in this part of the spectrum. If you get solid nanoparticles, they need to be separated in a centrifuge or long-term sedimentation, washed from the substances of the extract and do elemental analysis.