{"id":11540,"date":"2023-02-10T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeds.ca\/schoolfoodgardens\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:11:15","slug":"spotlight-on-joe-pye-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seeds.ca\/schoolfoodgardens\/spotlight-on-joe-pye-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on: Joe-Pye Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written By: Henry Porter<\/span><\/p>\n

Edited By: Colleen H.<\/span><\/p>\n

Designed By: Jiya Mehta<\/span><\/p>\n

Published By: Maryam Khan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joe-Pye Weed is an amazing plant which is beneficial to the environment, but its name is extremely misleading. Fortunately, more people now recognize how it and other native plants are crucial to the well-being of the ecosystems they reside in, and the role they play in those habitats. Hopefully, this article can teach you a little about that. Joe-Pye Weed was originally named so because it was considered just that, a weed. However, It is actually very <\/span><\/span>helpful to the environment, and attracts several species of butterflies and bees. \"\"For example, it is used by the Rusty-Patched bumblebee, which is an extremely endangered species. They were common around the 1980s, but have not been seen in Canada since 2009, with the last known location being the Ontario Pinery Provincial Park. It is food for many pollinators, including Monarch butterflies. It is also a larval host plant for two species of moths, which means they lay their eggs in it. The two species it hosts are the Three-lined Flower moth and the Ruby Tiger Moth. Many people dislike moths, but they do have important functions. They are pollinators, although not major ones, and they are very sensitive to shifts in the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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environment. This can let us know about what\u2019s <\/span>happening within <\/span>their ecosystems, and tip us off to how the environment\u2019s doing, and if anything is changing. Joe-Pye Weed is a great flower to have in your garden. They\u2019re extremely low maintenance, and mainly grow in wet places, so watering them and keeping them in the sun might be the most you have to do. It does not need to be staked, it can grow up to six feet tall in the best of conditions and has lots of beautiful flowers. So, if you\u2019re looking for a low-maintenance plant that\u2019s beautiful when it blooms, this just might be the one for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

March 2015 Featured Plant Joe Pye Weed.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NCC: Land Lines Moths: Amazing, beautiful, important and in need of study<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee | Wildlife Preservation Canada<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ruby Tiger | Butterfly Conservation<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Three-lined Flower Moth Schinia trifascia H\u00fcbner, 1818<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Image Source:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

File:Spotted Joe-pye Weed.jpg – Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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