: any of several tall North American perennial composite herbs (especially Eutrochium maculatum and E. purpureum) with whorled leaves and corymbose heads of typically purplish tubular flowers
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Taller plants, such as joe-pye weed, are sown in the middle.
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
Like Eupatorium maculatum [spotted joe-pye weed], Asclepias tuberosa [butterfly weed] and species of echinacea [coneflower], aster and eryngium [sea holly].
—John Wogan Carmen Winant, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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.
—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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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
Like Eupatorium maculatum [spotted joe-pye weed], Asclepias tuberosa [butterfly weed] and species of echinacea [coneflower], aster and eryngium [sea holly].
—John Wogan Carmen Winant, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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.
—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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