Now that's interesting, isn't it, all these thousands of sites and people spelling it wrong :o) LOL!!!!! Thanks, Joan. PS Around here, when we first moved into this area, they laughed when I said Poke instead of Polk. They said NOOOOO Polk, like the president, and the county? Joan wrote: Hmmm...not in Wikipedia and other official sites (there are thousands of hits on Pokeweed): _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed) While they do include variant spellings -- the plant is Pokeweed. Joan