Purple-Node Joe-Pye Weed

Synonyms:   Sweet Joe-Pye Weed

Scientific Name:   Eutrochium purpureum


Purple nodes. Leaves radiate from stems in fours and smell like vanilla extract when crushed. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Purple-Node Joe-Pye Weed


Genus species: Eutrochium purpureum
Common Names: Purple-Node Joe-Pye Weed, Sweet Joe-Pye Weed
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
Identified by:C. Chapman
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