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Phytolacca americana, also known as American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae.
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Phytolacca is a genus of perennial plants native to North...
- Phytolacca
Phytolacca is a genus of perennial plants native to North America, South America and East Asia. Some members of the genus are known as pokeweeds or similar names such as pokebush , pokeberry , pokeroot or poke sallet .
11 paź 2024 · pokeweed, (Phytolacca americana), strong-smelling plant with a poisonous root resembling that of a horseradish. Pokeweed is native to wet or sandy areas of eastern North America. The berries contain a red dye used to colour wine, candies, cloth, and paper.
7 lip 2021 · This week’s native plant is American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). It’s another one of those plants that, once seen, is never mistaken for anything else. At 10 or more feet tall a mature pokeweed towers over its underlings.
Facts. American pokeweed has been used as food and medicine, although it can be very poisonous. The young leaves can be eaten after lengthy boiling in two changes of water to leach out the toxins.
Pokeweed is a native herbaceous perennial in the Phytolaccaceae family that may grow 4 to 10 feet high. It is an aggressive plant that self-seeds easily and can become weedy. The plant grows easily in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.
American Pokeweed is a large herbaceous perennial, growing from a taproot. It grows to about 9m/10ft tall, shorter on dry sites or sites with poor soil. It branches regularly, giving it a shrub-like appearance. It has simple leaves on stalks that start out greenish, becoming red to purplish with age. The stems are hairless and round.
