The Oklahoma Poison Center is warning about pokeweed, a poisonous plant with green, red or purple berries that is toxic to humans and pets. The center said Thursday that it had received several calls ...

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, ...

Ohio is home to about 1,800 native plants, and some of them get more love than others. The state wildflower, large-flowered trillium, is a spectacular sign of spring, and it's oohed and aahed over.

One day last week before I could leave with my car I had to clean a purplish wash off its front window. Right now it’s not uncommon to find this stain at many places because there are lots of pokeweed ...

Weeding your backyard in Texas can be dangerous work. A North Texas woman wrote a caution to residents in a Facebook group and said after pulling weeds in an alley behind her home, her arms felt like ...

In their greenhouse, NC State researchers grow pokeweed, a herbaceous plant with a special ability to absorb and uptake a highly sought after class of metals. Rare earth elements like neodymium and ...

Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found along a sidewalk on a trip to England. The “Clueless” actor said she thought the ...

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 ...

Pokeweed is a weedy native species that is easy to identify from its dark purple berries on pinkish to red stems this time of year. Swihart Swihart Pokeweed is a weedy native species that is easy to ...

Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn's next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch--she's a hunter. Piers Corbin has always had an affinity for poisonous ...