page_title: Eutrochium maculatum
section_title: Cultivars
hierarchical_section_title: Eutrochium maculatum / Cultivars
caption_attribution_description: English: Spotted Joe-pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: Eutrochium maculatum, spotted joe-pyeweed, is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family Asteraceae. It is widespread through much of the United States and Canada. It is the only species of the genus Eutrochium found west of the Great Plains.
  This herbaceous perennial sometimes grows as high as 2 m. Stems are sometimes completely purple, sometimes green with purple spots. One plant can produce numerous rose-purple flower heads in late summer, each head with 8-22 disc flowers but no ray flowers. The specific name maculatum, meaning spotted, refers to the purple spots on the stem.
  Spotted joe-pyeweed thrives in marshes, rich fens and swamps. It also does well in man-made moist expanses such as ditches, seepage areas and wet fields. Above all else the plant flourishes in the non-shaded environments that are also abundant in wetlands.
  It is a larval host to the Clymene moth, the eupatorium borer moth, the ruby tiger moth, and the three-lined flower moth.
context_section_description: The following cultivars are recipients of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (listed under the synonym Eupatorium maculatum):-
  (Atropurpureum Group) 'Orchard Dene' 
  (Atropurpureum Group) 'Purple Bush' 
  (Atropurpureum Group) 'Riesenschirm'
caption: Ottawa, Ontario
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