RHS Other common names
American nightshade, cancer jalap, chon grass, coakum, cokan, crimson-berry plant, crowberry, dyer's grapes, garget, inkberry, pigeon berry, poke, poke root, poke salad, pokeberry, pokeweed, red ink plant, red weed, scoke, skoke, Virginian poke, Virginian pokeweed
Synonyms
Phytolacca decandra
Herbaceous Perennial
An upright herbaceous perennial with oval or lance-shaped mid-green leaves, tinged with purple in autumn. White-pink flowers appear in racemes from mid-summer to early autumn, followed by crimson-black berries in autumn
Position
Full sun, Partial shade
Soil Types
Clay, Loam
Max Height
2.5-4 metres
Max Spread
1-1.5 metres