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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.
Supporting native plants, even pokeweed, have huge benefits for wildlife. Every year, a handful of pokeweed plants pop up in my yard and I always allow a few specimens to thrive, mostly in the ...
Phytolacca heterotepala, the Mexican pokeweed, is a species of plant in the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae. It is native to the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico and has been introduced to the U.S. state of California and Portugal.
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Pokeweed may refer to several species of genus Phytolacca: Phytolacca americana, or American pokeweed; Phytolacca acinosa, or Indian pokeweed; Phytolacca sandwicensis, or Hawai'i pokeweed; Phytolacca pruinosa, or Levantine pokeweed
Pokeweed mosaic virus is a species of virus in the genus Potyvirus. [1] It is known to infect American pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ), in which it causes mosaic symptoms . References
Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press, Portland. ISBN 0-88192-453-9. A comprehensive collection of many plants with descriptions of their uses. Strike, Sandra S. (1994). "Aboriginal uses of California's Indigenous Plants". Ethnobotany of the California Indians. Volume 2. Koeltz Scientific Books USA, Champaign. ISBN 1-878762-51-6.