Joe-Pye Weed

Eutrochium

Description:

A pretty rose-colored bloom or wildflower

Habitat:

Large areas of open, native prairie grasses within a city block of fresh water

Notes:

If I'm remembering correctly, this plant produces a fluff (seeds?) similar to that of thistle after it blooms but I could be mistaken. I frequently see bees, butterflies and wasps on these blooms.

Species ID Suggestions

7 Comments

JanelleL.Streed 10 years ago

Thank you suzmonk and bayucca! On this day, I did not, but somewhere in my albums I may be able to find a full-length shot of the plant taken on a different day. Based on the images shown on the two links you guys provided, I've gone with Joe-Pye Weed as it looks closer than the other possibility to what I saw. Sorry. Shooting with a 55-300 mm lens this year so focused more on close-ups than wide angle or full-length images. This particular plant attracts a lot of insect however so, like I said earlier, I may actually have other images of it but they would have been taken on a different date. Thanks again, guys! :-)

bayucca 10 years ago

Janelle, for plant ID it is very important to have pictures of the flower/blossom, the leaves and the whole plant so see the details. So if you have some more pictures, please, upload them to this spotting, so that we can help more, thanks.

bayucca 10 years ago

Thanks, suzmonk, that's exactly how Project Noah works, we have experts and non-experts and everybody who has some IDeas should bring them into the game...

suzmonk 10 years ago

I'm no expert either, bayucca, just throwing another possibility out there :-)

bayucca 10 years ago

Yes, could also be. Both genera a closely related, I think the taxonomy is quite complex. I am definitely out of the game, actually I have no IDeas of plants...