Spotted Joe-Pye Weed

Brand: American Beauties Native Plants®

Color: Purple shades / Pink shades

Features

• Purple/Pink shade blooms
• Fragrant flowers with long summer/fall bloom.
• Native songbirds love the seed from spent flowers
• Magnet for native pollinators & butterflies
• Host plant for swallowtails, painted ladies & more
• Prefect for grouping
• Tolerates wet soils

Details: Upright growing stems with vibrant green, lance-like leaves, stems are topped with large, flattened heads of fragrant, flat, rose-purple flowers from July to early fall. It prefers moist to wet soil and does best in sun to partial shade. Does best in average, medium to wet soils in full sun, tolerates some light afternoon shade in hot summer climates. Native pollinators flock to this plant which hosts Swallowtails, Painted Ladies and other native butterflies! Great for grouping!

Cut down to the ground in late winter, you can divide the plant in spring or fall and replant to a new site!

Interesting Fact: This plant is named after Joe Pye, a 19^th century naturalist from New England who is said to have used the plant’s roots to heal typhus fever.