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Purple Joe Pye Weed

Eupatorium purpureum

Photo by sgpackard
Published on Project Noah
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42.1388, -87.831

Field Notes

Description:

Purple flower clusters that can be as big as a basketball.

Habitat:

Open woodlands.

Notes:

Here it's growing in a bur oak woodland ("Vestal Grove" in Somme Prairie Grove) with sweet black-eyed Susan (Redbeckia subtomentosa). More detail at www.sommepreserve.org.

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PublishedJanuary 20, 2012

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