Volunteer: Pokeweed

Last year this plant started growing from underneath one of the Sago Palms by the front walk.  It had potential for turning into something interesting, but sprouting from the middle of a Sago wasn’t going to work. At the end of  last fall I dug it up and to my delight found that it was growing from a tuber, so I replanted it a few feet away.  In its new home it came back more stunning than last year; however, despite the nice green foliage and interesting cluster of berries I didn’t know what it was.  Then just a few weeks ago Lorne was giving a tour of the house and gardens and showed it one of his guests.  Turns out they knew what it was and indentified it as poke-weed.  Lorne forwarded the wikipedia article and turns out the plant has a bit of an interesting history.

Here’s the link to the Wikipedia Article.

Pokeweed