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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Asteraceae
Eupatorium maculatum L.
spotted Joe-Pye-weed
Eupatorium: from Greek name Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus about 115BC who is said to have discovered an antidote to a commonly used poison in one of the species
maculatum: Latin for "spotted" or "mottled"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 2'-7' tall forb; stems spotted or evenly purplish |
| Flower: | head with 9-22 pink to purple disk flowers; inflorescence a 7", usually flat-topped, branched cluster; blooms July-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | sharply toothed, mostly in whorls of 4-5  |
| Habitat: | full sun; wet to moist; meadows, marshes, shores; in sandy, loamy, limy soil |
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