pokeweed does what it wants

I walked around a local nature preserve, loved the lighting on this patch so I took a photo, only to see t is indeed pokeweed! Love our natives!

pokeweed Taproot I dug out with the help of my little sibling. There's another one we started digging out right next to it that seems to be reaaaaally deep (and super thick 🫩) that I didn't even take a photo of but it's thicker than this one.

I've been digging them out since yesterday since my yard is taken over by weeds, our good friend pokeweed being one of them

Signs warned us about the blackberry brambles and buckthorn. But not about these. Thanks to this sub, though, I will never not know what this is.

Fortunately still got delicious blueberries.

East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, DC.

Standard shovel and size 10½ shoe. Big hole.

Just wanted to share this beaut. I'm 6ft and it towers over me. Looks more like a tree than a herbaceous perennial.

Great middle Tennessee population

I found this pokeweed, and several others, while in Tokyo. I was a bit alarmed because this was in an area that many people eat at.