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Pokeweed

Phytolacca Americana

Photo by es12
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Field Notes

Description:

A large, smooth, branching herb from a large, perennial rootstock, and with green, red, or purple stems; leaves alternate and simple; flowers white, on a long stem, more or less erect; fruit a dark purple berry composed of 5-12 segments fused in a ring, the stem drooping. P. rigida differs by having shorter, erect fruiting stems.

Habitat:

Forest or natural areas, weedy in disturbed areas, in fields, fence rows, low grounds, clearings, waste places, roadsides.

Species ID Suggestions

Pokeweed

Phytolacca

Comments (1)

Looks like Pokeweed to me.
Photographed
PublishedAugust 30, 2013

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