Image credits: Matt Lavin from Creative Commons via North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
Squirrels will eat the ripe fruits
Witch's Thimbles
as well as to displace invasives such as non-native honeysuckle and multiflora rose
can take aggressive pruning
Eutrochium maculatum - Spotted Joe-Pye Weed cut-seed-head Image credits: Matt Lavin fromSizes available: #1 (Trade gallon) Basics: zones 3 8, 36 72" x 36 72", full sun, the purply mauve, large, fluffy bloom is comprised of numerous small flowers, blooms in mid late summer, likes consistent moisture to considerably wet soils. Common names: Spotted Joe Pye Weed, Spotted Trumpet Weed, Joe Pyeweed, Joe Pye Weed, Queen of the Meadow (many other plants have this common name, probably depends on whose reign is in the ascendency). Synonyms: