PokeWeed - A Periphal Power Plant: #Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is a controversial plant, but in the right dosage and application is highly medicinal and also, if rendered correctly, it’s a delicious edible plant. This plant can be VERY poisonous if worked with incorrectly, due to cyanide like compounds within mostly the adult plant, and oddly enough, it’s not an invasive plant. It shows up often where people dont want it to grow, BUT, it has every right to be in North America, as the specie

Pokeweed: America's Deadly Salad Green

Phytolacca americana - American pokeweed. Broad, green leaves on smooth reddish stems bearing clusters of pendulous pink peduncles of small purple-black berries with flat, toothed edges on pedicels