northeast-flora-and-fauna

Just to show you that Monarch Butterflies also like Joe Pye Weed , here's the evidence. The taxonomy of the Joe Pye Weeds has changed a bit in recent decades. My Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (generally considered a good book for keying out species of wildflowers) puts the Joe Pye Weeds in the same genus ( Eupatorium ) as the bonesets/thoroughworts. But it looks like these days the Joe Pye Weeds have been spun off into their own genus: Eutrochium . It's still recognized that these two genii of wildflowers are related though; they're still considered to be together in a monophyletic group . My book was copyrighted in 1977, so this classification change occurred sometime over the last 4 decades. August 18, 2020 at Duke Farms