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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. ... Swainson’s thrushes in transit from boreal breeding forests to South American wintering grounds stop for a snack, as ...
The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America. Native peoples lived throughout Virginia for at least 12,000 years. [ 1 ]
Edward A. Goldman reported hearing the name from "several native hunters" in Panama in 1920. It is also reported as a native name for the howler monkey in Nicaragua. [188] Opossum (Didelphimorphia) marsupial: Powhatan: From aposoum ("white animal"), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa ("white dog"), originally referring to the Virginia ...
Rivina humilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Petiveriaceae.It was formerly placed in the pokeweed family, Phytolaccaceae. [2] It can be found in the southern United States, the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America.
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...
Phytolacca acinosa, the Indian pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Phytolaccaceae. [2] It is native to temperate eastern Asia; the Himalayas, most of China, Vietnam to Japan, and has been widely introduced to Europe. [1] The species was originally described by William Roxburgh in 1814. [3] [2]