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Question: Looking at the GoBotany site photos of recent sightings I see a berried plant labelled purple joe pie weed. Is …

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  Looking at the GoBotany site photos of recent sightings I see a berried plant labelled purple joe pie weed. Is this correct? It looks a lot more like poke weed (phytolacca americana). Which is it...assuming it's one or the other..?

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  Dear mbaluss, we don't analyze everyone's images that they post--there may in fact be misidentifications (as you have noted) on go botany. People are free to post images and make their own determinations of what the species are or probably are. If I happen to notice, I will offer send a message along to the member who posted. You should not assume the images are correctly identified. If you can send me a link to the image, I would be happy to examine it carefully.