Dozens upon dozens of edible plants grow wild in our region, but only one was ever featured in a hit song. ‘Polk Salad Annie,’ a ditty by a Southern boy named Tony Joe White about the joys of foraged ...

What do cattails, sassafras and pokeweed have in common? You can eat them. But how do you know which part is edible and how do you prepare it? In “Edible Wild Plants of the Carolinas: A Forager’s ...

This story was originally featured on Saveur. There was a time when the only place you might encounter a thicket of invasive Japanese knotweed or a tangle of pokeweed was while bushwacking in the ...

Claim to fame: This common Ozarks plant gained national recognition thanks to Tony Joe White’s 1969 top-10 song “Poke Salad Annie.” Long before pokeweed became a topic of song lyrics, young leaves and ...

Kitchen gardening seems more popular than ever, and with more people adding edibles there is a greater risk of accidentally eating poisonous plants. For instance, I grow pokeweed (Phytolacca americana ...

Last week my friend from the radio station asked me an interesting question as to whether I knew anything about how to go through the yard and find plants that a person could eat if there wasn’t ...

Half a century ago the AM airwaves included a tune by a momentarily famous rock singer who crooned about Polk Salad Annie. While not exactly epic lyrics, it did have a catchy beat which made it to ...

Pokeweed, or inkberry if you prefer, emerges in the spring as a clump of large pale green, pointed oval leaves, each about eight inches long. If you try to pull it up, it almost always breaks off, ...