Flowering sweet Joe pye weed with groups of small pink blooms and green foliage. - Cynthia Shirk/Shutterstock While deer are essential to a balanced ecosystem, these herbivores primarily feed on ...

Blooming now in moist, sunny spots in Georgia’s woods, meadows and roadsides are tall, showy, purplish-pink wildflowers known as Joe-Pye weeds, some of the state’s most iconic wild plants of late ...

Not just a weed -- great in a garden, too Magnet for bees and butterflies In bloom when little else is A reporter once asked me, "If you could convince all garden centers to sell one perennial, what ...

Along moist ditches, streambanks and country roadsides, Joe-Pye-weed towers gracefully with purplish-pink plumes attracting scores of butterflies. Like goldenrod, Joe-Pye-weed is a sign that summer is ...

In Yellowstone National Park, as you drive from one scenic point to another, you’ll notice cars pulled to the side of the road. This is a clear signal that something of extraordinary interest has been ...

So who is Joe and why is there a weed named after him? With no definitive answers, the most prevalent story is that it refers to a Native American from Colonial times named Joe Pye. It is said he used ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If Ohio’s prairies and wetlands had a celebrity, it ...

Joe-Pye weed hybrids are suitable for a cottage garden or a backyard wildlife habitat. Selections have been developed for the back of the perennial bed, where they tower over most plants, or the front ...

The Russell-Brasstown National Scenic Highway in Georgia is 50 miles of majesty. Our family drove it this weekend and I have an unquenchable thirst to go back. If the mountains and streams weren’t ...

In Yellowstone, as you drive from one scenic point to another you’ll notice cars pulled to the side of the road. This is a clear signal that something of extraordinary interest has been spotted. Bison ...