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Eutrochium purpureum
Also called Queen of the Meadow, Motherwort, Boneset, Quillwort, Purple Joe-Pye weed, Sweetscented joe pye weed, Gravelroot
A tall, clump-forming native perennial with purple stems and large dusky-pink to purple flower heads in late summer. It thrives in moist soil and is a magnet for butterflies, bees and other pollinators.
Eutrochium purpureum, commonly known as sweet Joe Pye weed, sweet-scented Joe Pye weed or purple Joe Pye weed, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern and central North America, from Ontario east to New Hampshire and south as far as Florida, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
Like other Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium) species, Eutrochium purpureum is cultivated as an ornamental landscape plant, and has escaped from cultivation in parts of New Zealand. E. purpureum and E. maculatum (spotted Joe Pye weed) are sometimes confused with each other or treated interchangeably in the gardening world due to their similar appearance.
Many species of butterflies, moths, bees, and flies visit the flowers.
Joe Pye Thoroughwort · Hollow Joe Pye Weed · Spotted Joe Pye Weed · Steele's Eupatorium · Joe Pye Weeds
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eutrochium purpureum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
