Eupatorium perfoliatum (Common Boneset)

grows 4-6 ft. tall

grows in full sun to part sun

prefers moist to wet soils

white blooms from July-October

natural habitat: floodplain forests, freshwater tidal marshes, tidal swamps, bogs, fens, interdune swales and ponds, stream banks and riverbanks, wet meadows, fields, ditches

resistant to black walnut toxicity (juglone)

deer resistant

stunning when interplanted with colorful meadow plants like goldenrods, Blue Mistflower, Cardinal flower, and Great Blue Lobelia

larval host plant to Clymene moth, Three-lined Flower Moth, and Boneset Borer Moth

associated with yellow-faced bees, ming bees, sweat bees, bumble bees, green sweat bees, assassin bugs, sand wasps, paper wasps, bald-faced hornets, bee wolves, beetle wasps, potter wasps, grass-carrying wasps, thynnid wasps, soldier beetles, cuckoo wasps, thread-waisted wasps, tachinid flies, syrphid flies, thick-headed flies, bee flies, Virginia creeper clearwing moths, monarch butterflies