Meet Eupatorium maculatum - commonly known as Joe-Pye Weed.
This stuff grows all over around here - not a single plant introduced by us. A member of the aster family it is a native plant. Like blue vervain it also likes wet feet and you can find it here in the lower areas of topography and along the creek banks.
Butterflies love this plant and if you could successfully propagate it - it would make for a showy addition to your home garden.
Joe Pye?
Some say he was a native American medicine man from Salem, Massachusetts who earned fame and fortune curing colonial settlers of typhus with his eponymous herb. There are other theories as well. You can learn more about the story of Joe Pye and his weed here.
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