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§1 Plant

Phytolacca americana L. var. americana

vernacular American pokeweed — variety · Phytolaccaceae


USDA
PHAMA3
GBIF
7219448
Rank
variety
American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana var. americana)
Platephotograph · Craig K. HuntCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Phytolaccaceae R. Br.
Genus
Phytolacca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 921 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 921 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 921 counties across 29 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 3 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 67 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 89 N
Indiana view state ↗ 79 N
Iowa view state ↗ 4 N
Kansas view state ↗ 67 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 67 N
Maine view state ↗ 5 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Michigan view state ↗ 32 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 112 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 8 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 44 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Ohio view state ↗ 88 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 31 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 64 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 50 N
Vermont view state ↗ 7 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 48 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PHAMA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7219448 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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