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Read more about Common Pokeweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Phytolacca americana
FAMILY
Phytolaccaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phytolacca americana var. americana
FAMILY
Phytolaccaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 068-01-001:
Phytolacca americana
FAMILY
Phytolaccaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Pokeweed, Poke
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JK Marlow jkm150224_705
February Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm100427_001
April Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm51511_16
May Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200625_6077
June Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Guess you gotta bloom where you are planted...
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JK Marlow jkm0407b_05
July Greenville County SC
Roadside
Smooth stems are strongly tinged with red-purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Roxanna Martin rlm7210_167
July Spartanburg County SC
5-30 stamens that are as long as the sepals. Superior ovary, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Roxanna Martin rlm7210_180
July Spartanburg County SC
Fruiting pedicels usually 7-12mm long (longer than those of P. rigida), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_americana_2
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_americana_2b
July
Flowers have 5 round greenish-white or pinkish petaloid sepals [no petals], per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Steve Marlow snm9807_17a
July Greenville County SC
Said to grow to 10' tall, but that's 3 yardsticks end to end that I'm holding.
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Roxanna Martin rlm82308_019
August Spartanburg County SC
The juice of the berries was once used for ink, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
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Tim Spira tpspamericana8
September
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JK Marlow jkm061022_007
October Pickens County SC
Roadside
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Paul Thompson pstphytolacca_americana2
Month Unknown
Raceme may be erect in flower, or divergent or drooping in flower and fruit, per Weakley's Flora (2012).