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Danita said:The leaves are still too immature for me to say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that those are Poke Salad roots (Phytolacca americana.)
Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

I've dug up so many of them and older plants can produce huge roots! Hard work to remove!

Poke Salad would love that moist soil and the seeds were likely brought in via bird poo when the birds were feasting on the Mulberry tree's fruit. Birds also like the berries on Poke Salad. Poke Salad is poisonous if eaten to humans, though.

It does look like that. I'm thinking you're right about it. So, it's gonna be more than one weekend's worth of work for me.

Thank you. :)

DaisyI said:I was going to suggest letting one grow - those aren't carrot leaves. My thought was burdock but Phytolacca americana - Pokeweed or poke salad - is also a possibility.

Just because its called poke salad doesn't mean you should eat it. Unless you know what you are doing, you will poison yourself

Let one grow - you will have an answer in a week or two.

Daisy

I'll let one grow to see. I'll leave the one in the cut mulberry there...I couldn't dig it out anyways.

Thank you both very much. I'm just glad it didn't turn out to be hemlock or something. (could that be a possibility?) Before I got any responses this morning, I was looking up hemlock roots. It looks similar, but not too much. Colors are different.