joe-pye weed

Questions about joe-pye weed

What does joe-pye weed mean?

joe-pye weed means "North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for joe-pye weed?

Close synonyms include purple boneset, trumpet weed, marsh milkweed, Eupatorium purpureum, spotted Joe-Pye weed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is joe-pye weed a common word?

joe-pye weed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.