General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 36 - 72 inches
Plant Spread: 18 - 30 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Mauve
Pink
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Water gardens
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Salt tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Tip
Division
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Awards and Recognitions: Other: 2010 Great Plant Picks award winner

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Common names
  • Joe Pye Weed
  • Spotted joepyeweed
  • Joepyeweed
  • Joe-Pye weed
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Eutrochium maculatum
  • Synonym: Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum
  • Synonym: Eupatoriadelphus maculatus var. maculatus
  • Synonym: Eupatorium maculatum var. maculatum
  • Synonym: Eupatorium purpureum var. maculatum

Photo Gallery
Location: Canada
Location: Smith College Botanical Garden
Date: 2011-08-02
Location: Tellys Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-08-28
Location: West border
Date: 2011-08-06
Location: Tellys Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-08-28
Location: West border
Date: August
Location: West border
Date: 2011-08-12
Swallowtail visiting Joe Pye

Courtesy Outsidepride
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Location: Tellys Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-08-28
Location: West border
Date: July
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-08-10
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Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-08-20
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Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-08-22
pruned down in June to be compact later on
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-08-22
leaves and flower clusters
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2006-08-27
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Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-07-30
foliage of leaves in 4's & 5's
Location: Tellys Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-08-28
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-08-22
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Location: Eckert's Greenhouse, Sterling Hts, MI
Date: 2012-07-30
Location: Eckert's Greenhouse, Sterling Hts, MI
Date: 2012-07-30
Location: Eckert's Greenhouse, Sterling Hts, MI
Date: 2012-07-30

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
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Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2009-10-16
Fall color and seed heads
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Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-07-30
specimen in bloom
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-07-31
specimen help up with twine around serviceberry tree
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-08-01
flower head
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Comments:
  • Posted by Newyorkrita (North Shore, Long Island, NY ) on Oct 4, 2011 11:59 AM concerning plant:
    Gateway is tall, be sure and give it enough room. It does like to spread but slowly. I just pull out the outermost branches if I feel it is getting out of hand. Be sure and plant this where you want it to be the first time as the roots really go deep and it is really, really difficult to move. Seedlings will appear throughout the garden if you leave the dried seedheads, which I do, and do not deadhead after flowering. They are easily yanked out when small so I have never found this to be a problem. Another thing I have noticed is that this plant commonly wilts on hot summer days but recovers quickly come evening. The blooms attract lots of butterflies and bees.

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  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Aug 23, 2019 11:00 AM concerning plant:
    'Gateway' seems to be the most sold form of Joe Pye from conventional, classic nurseries. It is a little bit more compact in habit with more compact, flattish flower heads than the mother species, but not by that much. Like the mother species it has leaves in whorls of 4 to 5 around a stem that is all purple or green with some purple spots. I could swear last year the stems on my specimen were purple but this year look green with spots. In August 2019 my specimen was 6 feet high was all fallen down so I had to stake it up. In 2020 I pruned it down about half way in mid-June to make it a bushier plant that does not need staking; that is a common procedure with tall perennials. It worked a bloomed in August 2020 being about 4 feet high and wider.
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