Looks like poke to me. Poke, pokeweed, poke salit, poke salet, anyway you want to spell it, the fact still remains that it is an obnoctious, invasion, ugly, horrible plant. Yes, I know some people eat it, but.......NOT ME.

It does not look like any of the poke I have. The plant looks too woody, plus the berry cluster look too round and the leaves too small. But then there may be a thousand different kinds of poke.

I like poke, but it is an ugly, invasive plant and I fight it every year.

Larry

I have to agree with Larry that it doesn't look exactly like the poke we have here in my part of OK, but also agree with Carol that it looks more like poke than anything else I can think of.

The only other thing that comes close is elderberry but I don't think those are elderberry leaves.

As Larry said, there's probably different variations of poke and this likely is one of them.

Looks like Poke to me. Red stems, elliptical leaves and black berries in hanging clusters. They are invasive, and probably not the plant you would want in an urban garden, but out here in the country they feed the birds into the winter. I've seen three or four bluebirds hanging on one plant.
Elderberries have flat-topped umbels of flowers and berries and the berries disappear long before this. ANd the leaves are compound. Blackberry vines produce blackberries and you know those aren't them.

It doesn't look like the poke I just sawed down yesterday (note: sawed with a chain saw!). I first thought of a kind of aronia....I even think there is a vining one. I know they have black berries.

Glenda - by Jove! I think you've got it!!!! I "googled" aronia and I think that's it!!!! I've shot her an e-mail to tell her not to pull it!!!

I just knew someone here could help. Thank you, Glenda!!! And OT - I made your french bread recipe to go with a big pot of venison spaghetti for dinner yesterday (using my own tomatoe sauce too!) and it was the BOMB!!! I've never made a load of bread except in the bread maker and your recipe is so much better!

Paula

Paula, that is music to my ears! I have been making that bread since the 1970's. I still have the original clipping; it was from a woman in Republic, Missouri. I wish she knew how many I have passed that recipe on to.

I went out and took a picture of the poke I cut down yesterday just for a comparison to show the difference in the berries. The leaves and stem do look similar. {{gwi:1132474}}From October 2010

Glenda...I searched but did not find a French Bread recipe from you anywhere :~) Would you be so inclined to share this (obviously wonderful) recipe?

Thank you!
Sharon

Sharon - I'm sure Glenda must be busy (I read her blog!) so here's a link to the blog that she posted the bread recipe.

It looked yummy then...then Ilene made it...then Diane made it....so of course, I HAD to try it. Glad I did!

Warning!!!! I makes at least 3 loaves. I cut it in half...and I still should have made 2 small loaves instead of one big one.

Paula

Here is a link that might be useful: Glenda's blog for French bread, etc.