Sweet Joe-pye-weed

(Eupatorium purpureum)

 

Color Photograph: USDA, NRCS, 1997 - Northeastern Wetlands Flora

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Sweet Joe-pye-weed (Eupatorium purpureum)

Identification: Flowers pink to purple-pink arranged in flat-topped or domed clusters. Stem usually green, sometimes with a white, waxy bloom, but purple or black at the leaf nodes. Leaves in whorls of three or four, elongate to ovate with toothed outer margins. Foliage with vanilla odor when crushed. Plant 3 to 10 feet in height.

Distribution: Throughout eastern North America and the Plains States.

Habitat: Sweet Joe-pye-weed is found in forests and thickets.

Flowering period: July toSeptember.

Sweet Joe-pye-weed (Eupatorium purpureum)

Similar Species:

Spotted Joe-pye-weed (Eupatorium maculatum)

Trumpetweed (Eupatorium fistulosum)(not covered here) has a hollow stem.

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