Conoclinium coelestinum (USA)

Conoclinium coelestinum (L.) DC., 135 1836. (syn: Conoclinium dichotomum Chapman; Conoclinium flaccidum E. Greene; Conoclinium nepetifolium E. Greene; Conoclinium venulosum E. Greene; Eupatorium coelestinum L.; Eupatorium deltifolium Rafin. ex DC.; Eupatorium deltoideum Steudel; Eupatorium violaceum Rafin.);   

Canada (Ontario), USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia), Cuba, China (I)
(Guizhou (I), Yunnan (I)), India (I) as per Catalogue of Life;

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Wild Plant for ID : Atlanta, Georgia : 30JAN19 : AK-71 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) 

Wild plant with Purple flowers seen in a park.

Looks like Ageratum Species.

Checked with Conoclinium coelestinum. 

Thanks for the id. Looks close.

a weed, despised by people who like orderly green lawn esp aedges