The Main Plant entry for Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium)

"Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. They are native to Eastern North America and have non-dissected foliage and pigmented flowers. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined.

Joe Pye, an Indian healer from New England, used E. purpureum to treat a variety of ailments, which led to the name Joe-Pye weed for these plants."

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

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Eutrochium is a robust upright perennial, 3-10 ft tall, with either purple-spotted or solid purple stems that are unbranched below the flower clusters and mostly hollow. The lance shaped leaves are 8-12 in long, and arranged in whorls of 4-7 at each node on the stem. The leaves have a vanilla scent when crushed.

This genus was previously categorized as Eupatorium.

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