This summer annual has watery, almost translucent stems that remind us of Impatiens. Large taproots make these a contest to remove, but it’s worth winning. The shape of the berries is distinctive, too, like round balls that have been slightly flattened on each side.
Green berries emerge in clusters, gradually changing to a gleaming purple-black. As they begin to stretch, you’ll see that the stems are also a reddish-purple. You’ll recognize the seedlings by their oval green leaves, which often have a hint of reddish purple. It will climb over shrubs and grow alongside trees. The herbaceous perennial emerges in spring and, left untended, achieves the height of a small tree. You can tell a lot by a nickname, and this one is commonly known as Inkberry (for its dark reddish-purple berries), Red Ink Berry (for the color that’s released when the berries are crushed), and American Cancer (for the toxicity of the leaves and fruits). Common pokeweed (Phytolacca Americana L.)Ĭommon Pokeweed ( Phytolacca Americana L.) (Interestingly, it also lists plant viruses that each weed could introduce into your garden and which may be harmful to other plants.)Īs we continue to pull weeds from our gardens, we thought you might like a primer on 10 of the most common types that might be appearing in yours. It covers roughly 500 species of weeds, and includes color photos showing the majority of them at stages from seed to flower. Weeds of North America was published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press. At nearly 400 pages, it offers color photos of 299 weeds at various stages of their lifecycles – starting at the seedling stage.
Weeds of the Northeast was published in 1997 by Cornell University Press. DiTomaso, and Weeds of North America by Richard Dickinson and France Royer.īoth are indispensable guides to the pesky weeds that gardeners in North America regularly come upon in beds, borders, meadows and woodlands. While many of you undoubtedly spent summer engrossed in the latest New York Times bestselling beach reads, around here, the books we can’t put down are Weeds of the Northeast by Richard H.
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