Phytolacca americana

Flowers emerging at 3 o'clock #midwesternnative

When Poke Salad attacks! #midwesternnative #shadelover

#exoskeletal visitor

Starting to color up

These are so invasive in my area! 💀

They are great winter bird food, @sellmoon !

A small piece of my #intimidating stand of Poke Salet #midwesternnative

Yikes!!!! 😳😳😳

These are getting so tall it's #intimidating -- if I weren't standing above them on this slope they'd be much taller than I am #midwesternnative

This is a great year for Poke Salad! The plants were so gigantic I had to cut them back but there are still lots of berries for the birds to eat this winter... #midwesternnative

Poke salad?? The berries are poisonous to humans, but are you saying the leaves are edible?

None of it is edible @sushiwaitress but apparently the word "salad" meant something completely different when Columbus landed...

@sushiwaitress I have apparently steered you wrong. Pokeweed IS edible if you boil the tender young leaves 3x, changing the water each time to remove the toxins. Apparently even then it's toxic enough to clear the roundworms from your intestines. A guy at Reddit posted that fact yesterday. Yum! 🤢

Please do not poke the salad LOL #midwesternnative

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