‘Little Joe’ Pye Weed
Eupatorium dubium ‘Little Joe‘
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial
Height at Maturity: 3-4′
Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Spacing: 2′ for mass planting, 5′ for space between plants
Spacing: 2′ for mass planting, 5′ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: Mauve-Purple
Flower Size: 10″ diameter clusters!
Flowering Period: June/July to September
Flower Type: Single in large clusters
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Green leaves with Purple splotched stems
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun
Water Needs: Average to Wet, consistently moist
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand (Amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Consistently Moist To Wet
Soil pH: 5.5 – 8.5 (Acid to Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Insect, Wet Soil
Description
A long time favorite in our gardens and one the butterflies and hummingbirds will thank you for planting, the ‘Little Joe’Joe Pye Weed is a more compact North American Native selection that produces large 10 inch diameter dome-shape clusters of mauve-purple flowers all summer long and into early fall. At only 3 to 4 feet tall, Little Joe grows bushier than the species with tighter flower clusters that put on a spectacular show in the summer garden. Erect stems are clothed in lance-shaped dark green leaves that contrast nicely with the purple spotted stems.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 3 to 4 feet tall, ‘Little Joe’ Joe Pye Weed is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings in perennial borders or behind low growing shrubs in landscape borders. A fine addition to butterfly gardens, purple theme gardens and consistently moist bog and meadow gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 2 feet apart for groupings; 5′ or more apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Eupatorium ‘Little Joe’ is easy to grow in a consistently moist, humusy and fertile soil. It thrives in full to mostly sun however tolerates some light afternoon shade.
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