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How to use pokeweed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pokeweed? Here are some examples.

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The purple berries of the pokeweed and the red berries of the European bittersweet, or nightshade, are common offenders.
Purple pokeweed crowded the edge of the in-ground pool, which was filled with black water.
Flowers appear on stargrass and pokeweed by the end of spring, but remain through October, with the berries of pokeweed ripening in autumn.
Flea beetles also feed on many nongarden plants, including Virginia creeper, pokeweed, horse nettle, pigweed and wild mustard family plants.
The old women in Sandy Ground used to believe in eating pokeweed shoots, the old Southern women.
Some perennial weeds like nightshade and pokeweed can cause staining of beans at harvest.
Planting fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, from American holly to bayberry and pokeweed, is also helpful.
Every spring, she used to send me out in the woods to pick pokeweed shoots.
The dishes are laced with local oddities like cattails and pokeweed but inspired by the high-tech wizardry of chefs like Grant Achatz.
Chewing insects can spread the disease from weeds as they feed, so be sure to remove all nearby pokeweed, nightshade, catnip, horsenettle and motherwort.
The berries of climbing nightshade are currently ripening and those of pokeweed will be soon.
Phytolaccaceae, the pokeweed family of flowering plants, comprising 18 genera and 65 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees, mostly native to tropical and subtropical North America and Africa.
Mayapple, bloodroot, pokeweed, nightshade and hellebore are other alkaloidal plants.
Aperennial which is new to me is Plant World's phytolacca Silberstein, a new and lovely variegated form of the hardy herbaceous pokeweed from north America.
Pokeweed mitogen is one of the few lectins that stimulates B lymphocytes as well as T lymphocytes.
Examples from Classical Literature
A few tufts of elder, with here and there a patch of briers and pokeweed, flourished in the gravelly soil.
Mr. pokeweed was promptly on hand, and tore madly into the burning pile, whence he soon emerged with a nude female.
Just then the front wall toppled outward, and pokeweed cleared the street at a single bound.
Is there anywhere a more audacious beauty than the pokeweed in autumn?
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