The second term, americana is in reference to this plant being native to America. The scientific name Phytolacca americana comes from the Greek word phyton meaning plant and lacca meaning crimson lake in reference to the deep reddish-purple fruits. In the wild, it is easily found growing in pastures, recently cleared areas, and woodland openings, edge habitats such as along fencerows, and in wastelands. It is used as an ornamental in horticulture, and it provokes interest for the variety of its natural products (toxins and other classes), for its ecological role, its historical role in traditional medicine, and for some utility in biomedical research (e.g., in studies of pokeweed mitogen). In spring and early summer, shoots and leaves (not the root) are edible with proper cooking (hence the common name "poke sallet" ), but they later become deadly, and the berries are also poisonous. Pokeweed is poisonous to humans, dogs, and livestock. It is considered a pest species by farmers.
It is also naturalized in parts of Europe and Asia. Pokeweed is native to eastern North America, the Midwest, and the South, with more scattered populations in the far West. The flowers are green to white, followed by berries which ripen through red to purple to almost black which are a food source for songbirds such as gray catbird, northern mockingbird, northern cardinal, and brown thrasher, as well as other birds and some small non-avian animals (i.e., for species that are unaffected by its mammalian toxins). It has simple leaves on green to red or purplish stems and a large white taproot. This pokeweed grows 1 to 3 metres (4 to 10 ft).
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