OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Phytolaccaceae, Pokeweed family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common Pokeweed, Poke

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Phytolacca americana   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Phytolacca americana var. americana   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Phytolacca americana 068-01-001   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

 

Habitat: In a wide variety of natural and disturbed habitats, usually associated with exposed mineral soil

Common (uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare in GA Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Maritime Pokeweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Phytolacca rigida   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Phytolacca americana var. rigida   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Phytolacca americana 068-01-001?   FAMILY: Phytolaccaceae

 

Habitat: Dune slacks, dune slopes, edges of tidal marshes, disturbed areas on barrier islands, xeric sandhills near the coast

Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"Our great-aunt loved the fields, the hills, cotton plants, the clear star in our evening sky, the bastard saffron blossoms and moon vines, the crimson poke, and the south wind and the fierce Southern sun, shining straight down, a hundred degrees in the shade. She watched the white drift of the plum trees, the dogwood and the yellow jessamine and jewelweeds and the wild Indian turnips. She heard the hidden song of the hermit thrush." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton