Identification help

[Claire Peterson 3]

Someone contacted us through Facebook today with some images of a plant that recently started growing in their yard. They are worried that it could be invasive or a type of knotweed. Looks to me like it could be pokeweed?

 

[Ryan Koziatek 0]

It looks like pokeweed to me too. 

[Claire Peterson 3]

3 hours ago, Ryan Koziatek said:

It looks like pokeweed to me too. 

Thanks Ryan! 

It seems like there may be a lot of confusion between pokeweed and knotweed, we just received another message asking for ID help and the plant looks identical.