Poke, the plant in the ’60s song “Poke Salad Annie,” is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. From its berries came the writing ink of the common colonist far from sources of rare and ...

Pokeweed grows here and there in the wild parts of Mole Hill, and often the lateral shoots from the plants’ deep perennial taproots annoyingly pop up baby plants in the middle of flowerbeds. This time ...

Claim to fame: This common Ozarks plant gained national recognition thanks to Tony Joe White’s 1969 top-10 song “Poke Salad Annie.” Long before pokeweed became a topic of song lyrics, young leaves and ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a plant with the word “weed” built right into its name would cause many people to have a sour attitude when they see its leaves popping up in mulched beds, along ...

It would be extremely hard nowadays to imagine a family not visiting a grocery store each week. It would be even harder to imagine having to “live off the land” today. Growing up in a large ...

Dozens upon dozens of edible plants grow wild in our region, but only one was ever featured in a hit song. ‘Polk Salad Annie,’ a ditty by a Southern boy named Tony Joe White about the joys of foraged ...

Half a century ago the AM airwaves included a tune by a momentarily famous rock singer who crooned about Polk Salad Annie. While not exactly epic lyrics, it did have a catchy beat which made it to ...

When birdwatcher Patricia Scanlon wrote to ask if I would write a column on pokeweed and all of its benefits for wildlife, I had a nice little feeling of affirmation. Just last year, I decided to let ...

Pokeweed, or inkberry if you prefer, emerges in the spring as a clump of large pale green, pointed oval leaves, each about eight inches long. If you try to pull it up, it almost always breaks off, ...

This profile of pokeweed is another in a series on invasive plants from the City Green blog by the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Pokeweed might look decorative with large, smooth leaves, ...

While tromping earlier this week through some open, sunny woods near my home in Decatur, I found myself bushwhacking through a dense colony of pokeweed bushes more than six feet high. The lush growth ...

Poke, the plant in the '60s song "Poke Salad Annie," is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. From its berries came the writing ink of the common colonist far from sources of rare and ...