: any of several tall North American perennial composite herbs (especially Eupatorium maculatum and E. purpureum) with whorled leaves and corymbose heads of typically purplish tubular flowers
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The agency is also asking people to plant and encourage the planting of good nectar sources like red clover, foxglove, bee balm, and joe-pye weed to give the besieged honey bees a boost.
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Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
Many species of caterpillars exclusively eat milkweed leaves, and butterflies consume nectar from natives, including wild bergamots, yarrows and joe-pye weed.
—Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
But also hickory, chestnut, elms and birches, and joe-pye weed, aster, marsh marigold, skunk cabbage, snakeweed.
—Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
Many species of caterpillars exclusively eat milkweed leaves, and butterflies consume nectar from natives, including wild bergamots, yarrows and joe-pye weed.
—Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
But also hickory, chestnut, elms and birches, and joe-pye weed, aster, marsh marigold, skunk cabbage, snakeweed.
—Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
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1818, in the meaning defined above
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