eupatorium purpureum

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eupatorium purpureum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Joe-Pye weed \Joe`-Pye" weed`\ (Bot.)
     A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (Eupatorium purpureum
     ), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.
     [1913 Webster]

  Trumpetweed \Trump"et*weed`\, n. (Bot.)
     (a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum),
         often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers
         in small corymbed heads.
     (b) The sea trumpet.
         [1913 Webster]

eupatorium purpureum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Eupatorium purpureum
      n 1: North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal
           clusters of flowers spotted with purple [syn: Joe-Pye weed
           , purple boneset, trumpet weed, marsh milkweed,
           Eupatorium purpureum]