Meet Eupatorium maculatum - commonly known as Joe-Pye Weed. The monarch butterfly is bonus.
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 thrives in the lower and wetter 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 naturalized 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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