Drat! Pokeweed! No, Chokecherry? Hope so!
What I thought might be buckeye or elderberry, turns out to be pokeweed! Darn! My sister helped my identify this by punching in descriptive words into Google images. How did it possibly get here, so close to the native forest at the edge of the property? American Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, is native to the Eastern US…