Pest Notes: Pokeweed
Author: Scott Oneto, UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor

American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is a robust, non-woody shrub that is spreading in parts of California. Although sometimes eaten, the entire plant is poisonous and should be considered with extreme caution.

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Here's more pokeweed reading:

• Pokeweed: A giant of a weed!
• Purple alert: common pokeweed
• Poisonous weeds!