LITFM Joe Pye Weed Baby Joe

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Season Five, Episode 00241 • Botanical Latin Name: Eutrochium dubium • I’ve had a specimen of this plat for years and in that time it has done so-so in a neglect side of the garden but all of that has changed as of this summer. I dug it up, potted it and it as you can see is doing ok. Joe Pye Weed is a native perennial plant that is deciduous and will die back to the ground every fall/winter. It bears ruby-red-pinkish flowers and has leaves in a nearly radial arrangement. It’s easy to grow but ‘Baby Joe’ is a specific cultivar that can only be reproduced by cuttings/cloning and its seed will just produce the wild version. This means that you should dead head it for the best results. This plant will tolerate clay soils with some compaction, and deer. In general it is a good alternative to Butterfly bush because our native butterflies’s larvae can eat its leaves but can’t eat those of Buddlea. After filming this video, I decided to take another stab at finding out more about Joe Pye, by fluke the Greenburg Nature center’s page came up with exactly what I was looking for. According to them; “There was a story, repeated in various forms over the past 100 years or so, that Joe Pye was “an Indian medicine man” who saved an entire colony of English settlers in the 1600’s from typhus fever using a tea made from the plant. As with many such stories, the details often changed in the telling, and the only cited source was “legend has it.” Recently, however, curiosity prompted the first scholarly research on the question, and in 2017, Richard B. Pearce and James S. Pringle published their findings in The Great Lakes Botanist journal. They concluded that the plant was likely named for Joseph Shauquethqueat, a highly-respected Mohican sachem or paramount chief, also known to white neighbors as Joe Pye, who lived in the Mohican community in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. Although there is no evidence that he was an herbalist or ever used or recommended the plant medicinally, many members of the First Nations did know of the medicinal properties of the plant. Pearce and Pringle speculate that since Joseph Shauquethqueat was also a selectman in Stockbridge, well-known and respected by his white neighbors, “it would not have taken many observations of his collecting the plants now called Joe-Pye-weed for medicinal use, or suggestions from him that they use those plants for the treatment of fevers…before someone, when referring to those plants, associated them with the man they knew as Joe Pye.” • So there you have it, and I’ve provided a link to the Greenburg Nature center so you can check their write up on this plant for yourself. • This week there are some links with extra information: • https://greenburghnaturecenter.org/20... • https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.o... • LITFM Garden Life is intended as a series of videos highlighting a specific plant/family in the Botanical Testing Gardens. The Gardens are located in North Carolina (Zone 8b). Hopefully this video gives you some good garden ideas and if you have questions or comments let me know. • The Blog is here: http://bl2-litfm.blogspot.com/

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