{"id":10781,"date":"2023-07-30T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:58:24","slug":"joe-pye-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/07\/joe-pye-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe-pye Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Perhaps my favorite fall flower is Joe-pye weed (Eutrochium spp.). There’s something about the color of the flowers and the color of the foliage that gets me, I don’t know why. I often have a strong emotional response to certain colors, and when sunlight catches the dull purple of Joe-pye Weed, I can feel it in my chest. I have no idea why this is so, I just know that it happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a walk this afternoon, I came upon some Joe-pye Weed nest to a rushing stream in the Whitney-Thayer Woods in Cohasset. About a hundred feet of the trail, near one of the crossings of Brass Kettle Brook, was flooded from the torrential rains we had last week. I was teetering along on logs and stones that someone had conveniently placed alongside the trail, when there it was by the side of the trail: those dull purple buds almost ready to burst into bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A capitulesence of Joe-pye Weed showing purple buds, but as yet no blossoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been trying to figure out which species of Joe-pye weed this was. I think it’s Coastal Plain Joe-pye Weed (Eutrochium dubium<\/em>), but I admit that I get confused by the online dichotomous key of the Native Plant Trust<\/a> (\u2014are the leaf blades triple-veined? \u2014are the stems spotted or streaked with anthocyanin? \u2014what exactly is the shape of the capitulescence?). Admittedly, I didn’t try as hard as I might to figure it out, since the dichotomous key tells me that E. dubium<\/em> is “difficult to distinguish from related species.” Nor do I really need to know exactly which species of Joe-pye Weed it is \u2014 they all have similar flowers which evoke the same emotional response in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps my favorite fall flower is Joe-pye weed (Eutrochium spp.). There’s something about the color of the flowers and the color of the foliage that gets me, I don’t know why. I often have a strong emotional response to certain colors, and when sunlight catches the dull purple of Joe-pye Weed, I can feel it … Continue reading “Joe-pye Weed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[949,1043,928],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-massachusetts","tag-cohasset","tag-joe-pye-weed","tag-native-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}