Poke sallet

American pokeweed, poke salad, Phytolacca americana

Phytolacca americana, also known as american pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, dragonberries, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed family phytolaccaceae. this pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). it has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white taproot. the flowers are green to white, followed by berries which ripen through red to purple to almost black which are a food source for songbirds such as gray catbird, northern mockingbird, northern cardinal, and brown thrasher, as well as other birds and some small animals (i.e., to species that are unaffected by its mammalian toxins). pokeweed is native to eastern north america, ...

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