coastal plain Joe-Pye weed
Eutrochium dubium
The plant is named after Joe Pye, a Mohican healer who reportedly used the species to treat typhus and other fevers using herbal decoctions.
- Scientific name
- Eutrochium dubium
- Taxonomy
- Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Asterales › Asteraceae › Eutrochium
- IUCN Red List status
- Least Concern
- Population trend
- stable
- Biome
- wetland
- Habitat
- Wet meadows, marshes, swales, and damp coastal thickets.
- Diet
- Photosynthetic (Autotroph)
- Range
- Atlantic Coastal Plain, Eastern United States, Nova Scotia
- Size
- 2 to 5 feet tall with a 2 to 3 foot spread
- Lifespan
- Perennial (5-10+ years via rhizomes)
- Active
- diurnal
- Threats
- Habitat loss due to coastal development, competition from invasive species like Phragmites, and rising sea levels.
- Safe to approach?
- Harmless and safe to approach. Do not ingest, as the plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids which can be toxic if consumed in quantity. Observe the many pollinators it attracts from a short distance.
Eutrochium dubium , also called coastal plain joe pye weed , is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to the eastern United States and Canada, primarily the Atlantic coastal plain from Georgia to Nova Scotia.
Photo: Jaime McGuigan, CC-BY, via iNaturalist
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