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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. Folklore says that Joe Pye used this plant to cure fevers. Folklore also states that American colonists used this plant to treat typhus outbreaks. The author Hemmerly writes that the Indians used Joe Pye Weed in the treatment of kidney stones and other urinary tract ailments. A peer-reviewed study suggests that Joe Pye of plant fame was a Mohican sachem named Schauquethqueat who lived in the mission town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts from c. 1740 to c. 1785 and who took as his Christian name, Joseph Pye.
Plum Creek Nature Center at Goodenow Grove Nature Preserve. Spotted in a restored prairie area adjacent to the nature center. Surrounded by forested area with a small lake.
Genus Eutrochium (Joe-Pye weed) or Eupatorium (Bonesets). Eutrochium purpureum = purple Joe-Pye weed, kidney-root, sweetscented joe pye weed, sweet Joe-Pye weed, gravel root, trumpet weed or feverweed. Or Eutrochium maculatum = spotted joe-pyeweed, or Eutrochium fistulosum = hollow Joe-Pye weed, trumpetweed, or purple thoroughwort
Spotted on Aug 1, 2021
Submitted on Aug 14, 2021
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