Purple Berry Bush Florida. Poke berry pigeon berry inkberry coakun pocan bush scoke. Common pokeweed Phytolacca americana a native of North America is a perennial weed often found in pastures as well as fence-rows rights-of-way reduced-tillage row crop fields and wooded areasIt occurs from Maine to Florida and as far west as Texas.
The shrub looks a bit like an American beautyberry in overall shape. American Beautyberry is a Florida native that produces bright purple berries in the fall. My uncle in Florida has some shrubby flowering plants with small purple flowers that become orange berries.
The cultivar Leucocarpa has white fruit.
Best flowering and fruit production occurs in full sun. It is easy to see how beautyberry got its common name. This is a shrub that has beautiful purple berries. The cut piece should have 5 sets of leaves.
