Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Eutrochium fistulosum
Pink flowers from July into October, worked by common eastern bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 53 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 6 ft to 8 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink, Jul to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 16 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 36 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 34 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Tri-colored bumble bee (Bombus ternarius), Lemon cuckoo bumble bee (Bombus citrinus)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Inkberry
Pink Azalea
Swamp Azalea
New England Aster
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Sweet GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Eutrochium fistulosum.