| Scientific Name: | Eutrochium purpureum |
| Common Name: | Joe Pye weed |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Wildlife food, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Violet, Pink, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems erect; 1.2-2m tall, green to dark purple, especially at nodes; leaves in whorls of 3 to 5 at nodes, ovate-lanceolate, most blades 9-20cm long x 3-8cm wide, margin coarsely serrate, bright green, most petioles 5-15mm long cm long; inflorescence panicle-like, most heads with 5-7 disk florets that have relatively very long pink and forked styles; achenes 3-5 mm long, feathery for wind dispersal. | |