Eutrochium, Coastal Plain Joe-Pye Weed, Eastern Joe Pye Weed 'Little Joe'

I bought this supposed dwarf version maybe 5 years ago and after the first year it’s been anything but dwarf. I guess it reverted back ...Read Moreto the original size and now hits about 5-6 feet. It wound up crowding out some other perennials that I had to move but I’m still giving it a positive rating since the pollinators flock to it no matter what size it is. Just a warning that even if you buy it small that it may not stay small in coming years. I have it in a part sun/filtered sun area in my zone 6b garden and it blooms like crazy. The clump gets bigger every year and it has reseeded some which I’ve dug up and gave away to friends. As of right now in mid July it is just about to bloom. It does sprout up later than other perennials so keep this in mind in the spring. It’s also a fairly sturdy plant and stood up tall to torrential rainstorms the past few days.

All the big species have lovely, large flower heads which are very attractive to butterflies and other pollinators.

Unfor...Read Moretunately, the seed-heads tend to look messy rather than ornamental, and begin to detract from the flowering display within a week of the start of flowering. This is especially obvious with the white-flowered cultivars. Cutting back the flower heads in mid-August may trigger rebloom in early fall.

In the Chicago Botanic Garden's 2014 performance evaluation of Eupatoriums/Eutrochiums, this cultivar received five stars out of five, one of four of the 26 taxa in the trial to do so. This was largely due to its exceptional resistance to powdery mildew, which commonly disfigures the big species of this genus. [HYPERLINK@www.chicagobotanic.org]

This cultivar generally gets taller than described, though still shorter than the species. In the Chicago trials, it was 60" tall.

Though they can tolerate brief dryness once established, the big species of this genus are all moist-soil plants. Drought stress can dwarf them, crisp their leaves, and make them more susceptible to powdery mildew.

Late to emerge in spring. Blooms July-September in my garden. PP #16122

Love it!

The Eastern Cottontails chewed it down , but then it grew back up (sprinkled some cayenne pepper on it to keep t...Read Morehem away) and looks beautiful and smells wonderful!

First year growing it.