Poke, the plant in the '60s song "Poke Salad Annie," is one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. From its berries came the writing ink of the common colonist far from sources of rare and ...
A beautiful plant with bright red and black berries came up in my perennial garden. A local nurseryman identified it as poke weed. He wasn't sure if it's the same plant eaten in the South called poke ...