Phytolacca americanaL.

American pokeweed

WFO wfo-0000482062 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Phytolacca americana, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205235106
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. b Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205884927
Phytolacca americana, photographed by mefisher
fig. c mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205020011
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Megan Massa
fig. d Megan Massa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204470434
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Arturo Santos
fig. e Arturo Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204979334
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203981936
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. g Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203638887
Phytolacca americana, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203955006

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 6,009 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 6,009 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Phytolacca americana var. americana
  • Phytolacca decandra L.
  • Phytolacca rigida Small

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.