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POKEWEED; PIGEON BERRY: Scoke: Ink- 

 ber*y: Garget. Phytolacca decdndra. 



Pokeweed Family. July — Sept. 



A plant 4-10 feet tall. Found by roadsides, 

 in clearings, waste places. Maine and On- 

 tario to Florida and Texas. 

 Flowers — Small, with 5 white divisions, pink 

 tinted outside, and a conspicuous green 

 center; borne in loose spikes. Berries 

 dark purple in long drooping clusters. 

 Ripe August — October. 

 Leaves — Oblong to lance-shaped, tapering at 

 both ends. 



Plant stems branching, reddening to- 

 ward fall. Root large, poisonous. 



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