Phytolacca japonica is a species of flowering plant in the pokeweed family (Phytolaccaceae). Native perennials include common blue violet, dogfennel, passion flower (maypop), pokeweed, wild garlic. The toxic extract of ripe pokeweed berries can be processed to yield a pink dye. Pokeweed mitogen is a mitogen derived from "Phytolacca americana". They are herbivorous, and have been recorded as eating pokeweed fruit and blackberries. Pokeweed is poisonous to humans, dogs, and livestock. It is also known as the Pokeweed family. It was formerly placed in the pokeweed family, Phytolaccaceae. This tree is categorized in the same genus as the North American pokeweed. The 1406 "Jiuhuang Bencao" "Famine Relief Herbal" lists pokeweed as a famine food. In the Pacific Northwest of North America, pokeweed is an invasive species.