Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poke salad comes from young pokeweed leaves, made safe to eat through careful boiling. The leaves are boiled twice, drained, and ...

When birdwatcher Patricia Scanlon wrote to ask if I would write a column on pokeweed and all of its benefits for wildlife, I had a nice little feeling of affirmation. Just last year, I decided to let ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oklahoma Poison Center is warning about pokeweed, a poisonous plant with green, red or purple berries that is toxic to humans ...

In early September a few years ago, one of my Decatur neighbors, who was from Great Britain, asked if I knew the identify of a tall, shrub-like plant growing in a dense colony along a creek in our ...

Davy Walker smells pokeweed leaves as Ranger Daphne Moland explains the characteristics of the plant to children participating in a day camp at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge this week. Pokeweed is ...

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 ...

Southerners have always been gifted at making the best out of anything. (Take old-fashioned potato candy, for instance, which uses leftover mashed potatoes to make a sweet, nutty treat.) Poke salad, ...

Poke salad comes from young pokeweed leaves, made safe to eat through careful boiling. The leaves are boiled twice, drained, and often sautéed in bacon grease. It's a traditional Southern foraged dish ...