{"id":7615,"date":"2016-08-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:50:45","slug":"joe-pye-weed-is-no-longer-a-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/08\/04\/joe-pye-weed-is-no-longer-a-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Pye Weed Is No Longer A \u201cWeed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eupatorium dubium ‘Baby Joe’ at Univ. of Tennessee Gardens, Knoxville<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. native Joe Pye (Eupatorium spp<\/i>.), formerly\u00a0\u201cJoe Pye Weed\u201d, has been tamed. Modern day selections grow more compact\u00a0compared to 8+ feet tall\u00a0wildlings that inhabit fields\u00a0across eastern North America (USDA hardiness zones 4-8). Huge, terminal, domed, compound flower heads measure 12-18 inches across (depending on cultivar) and make excellent cut flowers.<\/p>\n

The most popular\u00a0cultivar is \u2018Gateway\u2019 (E. purpureum ssp. maculatum<\/i> \u2018Gateway\u2019) which produces magnificent domes of mauve pink flower clusters that sit atop sturdy purple stems. \u2018Gateway’ typically stands 4-5 feet tall and erect in clumps and with dense thick inflorescences. Dark green 8-inch long lance-shaped leaves\u00a0are coarsely-serrated and\u00a0arranged in whorls of 3-4 on sturdy, wine-red stems.<\/p>\n

Common Forms of Joe Pye:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hollow stemmed Joe Pye (E. fistulosum<\/i>) is a robust, upright perennial with hollow purple stems accented by huge, rounded, tight clusters of pink or purplish-mauve flowers.<\/p>\n

‘Baby Joe’ Joe Pye (E. dubium<\/em>) – mauve purple flowers appear on 3 to 4 foot tall plants from July to September (zones 3 to 9).<\/p>\n

E. rugosa<\/i> \u2018Chocolate\u2019 leaves with deep shiny purple stems makes a wonderful contrast to explosions of white flowers along with numerous kinds of butterflies in September and October.<\/div>\n
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‘Phantom\u2019 is a new hybrid cultivar of E. maculatum<\/i> ‘Atropurpureum’ and E. rugosum<\/i>. Phantom is a very short growing Joe-Pye, just under 3 feet tall. The dome-shaped lavender head flowers appear most of August. The whorled foliage is dark green on sturdy stems.<\/div>\n

Joe Pye thrives\u00a0in moist fertile soils along edges of ponds and streams.\u00a0Plant is highly\u00a0drought tolerant, although\u00a0leaf edges often scorch in dry summers. It is disease and pest\u00a0resistant and deer and\u00a0rabbits stay away. Many kinds of\u00a0butterflies, bees\u00a0and other pollinators visit the florets. Seedheads persist well into winter and provide food for foraging birds.\u00a0Keep poisonous leaves of Joe Pye away from grazing animals. Shortened cultivars\u00a0are great\u00a0stand-alone flowering perennials\u00a0and serve as\u00a0bold background plants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Herbal folklore:<\/span> Joe Pye (or Jopi) is named for\u00a0a traveling Native American medicine man who lived in New England around the American Revolution era. He sold various herbal remedies to the colonists. Historically, Joe Pye weed\u00a0was utilized to\u00a0treat typhoid fever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                U.S. native Joe Pye (Eupatorium spp.), formerly\u00a0\u201cJoe Pye Weed\u201d, has been tamed. Modern day selections grow more compact\u00a0compared to 8+ feet tall\u00a0wildlings that inhabit fields\u00a0across eastern North America (USDA hardiness zones 4-8). Huge, terminal, domed, compound flower heads measure 12-18 inches across (depending on cultivar) and make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,747,749,674,773,770,665,774,625,843,975,1060,1059,706,646,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8525,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/8525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}