Pokeweed

Common Names: Pokeweed, American pokeweed, poke salad, poke sallet, pokeberry, inkberry, American nightshade, American spinach, scoke, pigeonberry, dragonberries, red weed, red ink
Latin Names: Phytolacca americana
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native

Edible: Poisonous when any part is eaten raw. Young shoots and leaves can be boiled and eaten. Some sources say it must be boiled 2-3 times with the water changed each time.

Other uses: Medicinal uses. Dye and ink from the berries. Birds eat the berries.

Note: In the back near the woods.

Pokeweed (June)

Pokeweed (June)