Missouri Plants Pokeweed   (Phytolacca americana) Tracheophyte: Angiosperm: Dicot: Pokeweed (Phytolaccaceae) Native North American plant Habitat: any full sun area. ID Features: green unripe fruit, blue ripe fruit resembling blueberries, large long leaves. Natural History: Pokeweed is commonly found in waste places, fields, and yards. Its greenish-white flowers are born terminally on stalks. Its fruit is a dark purple berry. Its leaves are oblong and up to one foot in length. The mature plant parts are poisonous.

The information is from: Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 5th Edition, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1998.