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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. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft). [4] It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white ...
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. [2] [3] Other names for species of Phytolacca include inkberry and ombú.
Ohio is home to about 1,800 native plants, and some of them get more love than others. The state wildflower, large-flowered trillium, is a spectacular sign of spring, and it's oohed and aahed over.
Geranium maculatum, an Ohio native, is a relative of the common bedding geranium (Pelargonium × hortorum). This list includes plants native and introduced to the state of Ohio, designated (N) and (I), respectively. Varieties and subspecies link to their parent species.
The latest Rare Native Ohio Plants Status List cites 271 are endangered. ... DNAP is the state’s authority on Ohio’s flora and maintains the biennially updated Rare Native Ohio Plants Status ...
November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State.
Name comes from a play about a Native American from the Wampanoag people of New England. [26] Mingo Junction - Mingo is common nickname for the Ohio Seneca people. Variant of Mingwe, what the Lenape once called the related Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania. Mississinawa - Miami. Name of a river tributary to the Wabash.
The native soils found in Greater Columbus are more alkaline, and unless a gardener or homeowner commits to adjusting soil pH on a regular basis, these plants tend to struggle in our landscapes.