American pokeweed
Phytolacca americana L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.1 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Phytolaccaceae
Also called Pokeweed, Poke, Pokeberry, Inkberry, Common pokeweed
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hebrew
- פיטולקה אמריקאית
- Italian
- Cremesina, Uva da colorare, Fitolacca americana
- French
- raisin d'Amérique, teinturier, Épinard de Cayenne
- German
- Amerikanische Kermesbeere, Asiatische Kermesbeere
- root
- PHYAME, Kosiba, Shukara
- Portuguese
- Tintureira
- Catalan
- Raïm de moro
- Chinese
- 垂子商陸, 美洲商陸, 洋商陸
- Spanish
- Hierba carmín, Uva de españa
- Japanese
- ヨウシュヤマゴボウ, アメリカヤマゴボウ
- Czech
- líčidlo americké
- Dutch
- Westerse karmozijnbes, Amerikaanse Karmozijnbes, westerse karmozijnbes
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Phytolacca americana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.