American pokeweed, Pokeberry seeds, Pokebush sedds, Pokeweed, Poke sallet, Dragonberries, Inkberry (lat. Phytolacca americana).

A perennial herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Laconosa of the Laconaceae family (Phytolaccaceae). Herbaceous perennial up to 3 m tall with a multi-headed short thick rhizome and a fleshy taproot.

The leaves are large, green, simple, opposite, pointed ovate, wedge-shaped-narrowed to the base, whole-cut, 5-40 cm long and 2-10 cm wide, with short angular petioles.

The flowers are bisexual, small (about 0.5 cm in diameter) white, collected in elongated racemes (10-15, up to 30 cm long) at the ends of the shoots. The perianth is simple, with rounded-ovate, blunt, whitish at first, and then reddening lobes. Ten stamens. The ovary is upper. Blooms from June to September.

The fruit is a purple-black berry. Mature fruits are rounded. The seeds are reniform-lenticular, about 3 mm long, shiny, black. It bears fruit since August.