Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic

Eutrochium dubium (Eastern or Coastal Joe Pye Weed) flower buds in July. Photo by Elaine L. Mills, 2018-07-05, private garden, Arlington, Virginia.

Eutrochium dubium (Eastern or Coastal Joe Pye Weed) in July. Photo by Elaine L. Mills, 2015-07-26, private garden, Arlington, Virginia.

Eutrochium dubium (Eastern or Coastal Joe Pye Weed) in August landscape. Photo by Elaine L. Mills, 2015-08-08, private garden, Arlington, Virginia.

Detail of Eutrochium dubium (Eastern or Coastal Joe Pye Weed) flowers in August. Photo by Elaine L. Mills, 2015-08-08, private garden, Arlington, Virginia.

Detail of seed heads of Eutrochium dubium (Eastern or Coastal Joe Pye Weed) Photo by Elaine L. Mills, 2017-09-28, private garden, Arlington, Virginia.

This more diminutive Joe Pye Weed is native to the eastern coastal plain and can be found in swamps, shores, and wet meadows.   Its beautiful pink-headed stems wave in the summer breeze and provide landing platforms attractive to butterflies and other insect pollinators. Eupatarium dubium is now called Eutrochium dubium by Virginia Flora.

Find out more about Eutrochium dubium and see a great video with pollinators . . .