WILD FLOWERS PINK 
from June to August, from the mountains of Mary- 
land to Labrador, and west through the northern 
border states and Canada to California, and 
Alaska. It is also found in northern Europe and 
Asia. 
JOE PYE WEED. TRUMPET WEED. GRAVEL 
ROOT. TALL, OR PURPLE BONESET. KIDNEY 
ROOT. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW 
Eupatorium purpureum. Thistle Family. 
During August and September, the tall, swaying 
heads of Joe Pye are conspicuous in low, wet meadows, 
and along open streams and swamps where it grows 
rankly and vigorously. It was named from Joe 
Pye, an Indian doctor, who gained some notoriety 
travelling through New England, and who applied 
this plant in treating cases of typhus fever. The 
large, stout, leafy stalk grows from three to ten feet 
high, and branches at the summit. It is usually 
stained with purple. The large, thin, oval or broad, 
lance-shaped leaves are arranged in curving whorls 
of from three to six. They are short-stemmed, long- 
pointed, rounded-toothed, firmly ribbed and veined, 
and rough-surfaced. The flowers are of a peculiar 
shade of dull pink or purple. They have a matted, 
fuzzy appearance, and are arranged in numerous 
small groups that form large, dense, and somewhat 
flat-topped, or elongated terminal clusters. The small, 
tubular florets have long, projecting, hdiry pistils, 
and the cup in which they are set is of the same colour 
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