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 ...

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 ...

They know their time is fleeting, and yet they have one mission: to provide for their next generations. While they consume the nutritious nectar our wild and native plants provide, they are collecting ...

The origin story of Joe Pye weed and it’s medicinal uses have long stumped researchers. The origin story of Joe Pye weed and it’s medicinal uses have long stumped researchers. In summer, many New ...

The roadside flora goes through a change now in late August. The three dominant wildflowers of July have moved on to the next phase. Canada thistle has its flowers replaced by thick growths of fluffy ...

Joe-Pye weed is an attractive native plant with an interesting history behind its common name. Joe-Pye weed is a pollinator-attracting native plant with an interesting history behind its common name.

The cornerstone of my first garden was, and still is, a weed. A giant of a plant, known to thrive in sun or semi-shade if the soil (or hard clay in my case) tends to be damp, Eupatorium purporium ...

Joe Pye has been identified by the Canadian botanist, James Pringle, as the nickname of Joseph Shauquethqueat, a Mohican from Western Massachusetts. But there are two widely divergent myths about how ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Sometimes plants get names that aren’t always descriptive or even accurate. Take Joe Pye Weed, a tall-growing ...