Not to be confused ...

3 July

There are two, quite tall native plants that are flowering this week. They both have a red-hued inflorescence atop a tall stem and with similarly lanceolate leaves. To a casual viewer only seeing one of the two confusion as to which they are looking at is possible - and indeed, happens, as a recent conversation demonstrated.

Here they are, fortuitously growing side by side - never mistake them again. Joe Pye Weed and Swamp Milkweed