Southerners have always been gifted at making the best out of anything. (Take old-fashioned potato candy, for instance, which uses leftover mashed potatoes to make a sweet, nutty treat.) Poke salad, ...

Q: What is this white-flowered plant that appeared in my garden bed and seemed to grow really tall overnight? A: This is pokeweed, a very common native perennial that matures quite large and stout for ...

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, ...

My husband spent a good part of this past weekend trying to rid part of our yard of American pokeweed (also known as Virginia pokeweed, pokeberry and American nightshade.) Pokeweed is a native ...