This page is designed to be viewed in a frame with an index and site contents. The stem is often purple. The leaves are alternate. Each leaf is entire. They are white.
Blooms first appear in early summer and continue into early fall.
They are in an upright raceme . Most of eastern U. S. except extreme north. More Info Classification P oke is well know among country folk in the south as a tasty cooked green. The sallet term in one of the common names is an old term for cooked greens. Tinder young shoots are gathered and boiled twice discarding the first water to rid the leaves of any possible poison.