By Keith Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Friday, May 22, 2009

My friend Bill Hailey and I recently went out to enjoy a day of wildlife watching in east Arkansas. Our plans quickly changed, however, when I found freshly sprouting pokeweed on a woodland edge. Most folks consider pokeweed nothing more than its name suggests: just a weed. The dark purple berries, root and purplish-stemmed, fully grown plants are poisonous. But when pokeweed first sprouts in spring, the tender green shoots can be gathered and eaten. "Good gracious, look at this!" I told Bill ...

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