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Mature American pokeweed with purple-red stems and hanging berry clusters growing among goldenrod in a backyard habitat.

American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana): The Native “Weed” I Learned to Appreciate

Pokeweed is probably not the first plant that comes to mind when someone thinks about creating a native garden. In fact, for a long time, I didn’t think much about it at all. American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is one of those plants that seems to simply appear. Birds eat the berries, deposit the seeds somewhere

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