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joe-pye weed N. Amer.
Also joe pye.
[See quot. 1893.]
Either of two tall, perennial herbs, Eupatorium purpureum or E. maculatum, belonging to the family Compositæ, and bearing clusters of purplish flowers.
1818A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 245 Eupatorium..purpureum (purple thoroughwort, or joe-pye). Ibid. Eupatorium..verticillatum (joe-pye's weed). 1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. II. 638/1 Joe-pye weed. An American name for Eupatorium purpureum. 1893F. T. Dana Wild Flowers iii. 210 Joe-Pye-Weed. Trumpet-Weed. Eupatorium purpureum... ‘Joe Pye’ is said to have been the name of an Indian who cured typhus fever in New England by means of this plant. 1895K. D. Wiggin Village Watch-Tower 42 Purple asters and gay Joe Pye waved their colors by the road-side. 1903E. C. Waltz Pa Gladden vii. 144 In other Septembers the slope..was lovely with..joepye-weed. 1949Nature Mag. Apr. 187/2 Later the cowslips are replaced by purple loose⁓strife and that butterfly magnet, Joe-pye weed. 1954C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 412 Joe-Pye-weed is found from New England south to North Carolina and New Mexico. |