Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Eutrochium purpureum
Pink and purple flowers from July into September, worked by common eastern bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 45 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 6 ft to 7 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and purple, Jul to Sep
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 42 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
Pink Azalea
Swamp Azalea
Inkberry
New England Aster
Dwarf Azalea
Cutleaf Coneflower
Northern Highbush BlueberryFacts from the Quercus record for Eutrochium purpureum.