Eutrochium steelei, also known as Appalachian Joe-Pye weed[3] or Steele's eupatorium,[4] is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, in the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Eutrochium |
| Species: | E. steelei
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| Eutrochium steelei (E.E.Lamont) E.E.Lamont 2004
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Eutrochium steelei is a perennial herb sometimes as much as 200 cm (78.5 in; 6.5 ft) tall. Stems are greenish-purple, not hollow. One plant can produce many small pink or purple flower heads, each head with 5-10 disc flowers but no ray flowers.[6]
See also
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edit- ^ "Eutrochium steelei (E.E.Lamont) E.E.Lamont". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
- ^ "Eupatorium steelei (E.E.Lamont) E.E.Lamont". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- ^ LeGrand, H.; Sorrie, B.; .Howard, T. (2021). "Vascular Plants of North Carolina". North Carolina Biodiversity Project and North Carolina State Parks. Raleigh (NC). Retrieved 18 Mar 2021.
- ^ NRCS. "Eutrochium steelei". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^ "Eutrochium steelei". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
- ^ Lamont, Eric E. (2006). "Eutrochium steelei". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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