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- The Joe-pye Weed grows in moist places, though well drained, and can be quite a large plant with stout stems that can push its crown, an inflorescence of a flat cluster of pink flowers, upwards to six feet. The plant does not come into flower until about half way through the summer. Audubon writes: Folklore tells that an Indian, "Joe Pye," used this plant to cure fevers and that early American colonists used it to treat an outbreak of typhus."
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