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 8 of West Virginia’s 55 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
- 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
Pink Azalea
New England Aster
Cutleaf Coneflower
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Calico AsterFacts from the Quercus record for Eutrochium purpureum.