When it blooms
In bloom: July to September
How to grow it
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Purple Joe-Pye-Weed is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Little Brown BatEndangeredBatDisease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBirdA bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
Bank SwallowThreatenedBirdIt feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBirdIts slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Photos: Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Little Brown Bat also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Purple Joe-Pye-Weed where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.