OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 20 taxa in the family Araceae, Arum family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Golden Club, Never-wet, Bog Torches

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Orontium aquaticum   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orontium aquaticum   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Orontium aquaticum 032-02-001   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Generally in peaty and stagnant water (acidic to calcareous), such as beaver ponds, blackwater streams, swamps, pools in low pocosins, streambeds in the Piedmont, bogs and swamps in the mountains, tidal freshwater marshes

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Skunk Cabbage

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Symplocarpus foetidus   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Symplocarpus foetidus   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Symplocarpus foetidus 032-03-001   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Seepage-fed bogs and nonalluvial swamps

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in NC

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Peltandra virginica   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Peltandra virginica   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Peltandra virginica 032-04-001   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes

Common (rare in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: White Arrow-arum, White Arum, Spoonflower

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Peltandra sagittifolia   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Peltandra sagittifolia   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Peltandra sagittaefolia 032-04-002   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Pocosins of the outer Coastal Plain, sphagnous swamps

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Green Dragon

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema dracontium 032-05-001   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Bottomlands and floodplains, rarely in uplands over mafic or calcareous rocks or substrates

Uncommon (rare in Mountains & GA Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Green Dragon

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema species 1   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Bottomlands and floodplains over calcareous substrates

Native to Alabama & Florida, etc.

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Indian Turnip

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema triphyllum   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema species 2   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002?   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Small Jack-in-the-pulpit, Swamp Jack

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema pusillum   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002?   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Swamps and moist forests

Common in Mountains, common in NC (uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC) (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Preacher John, Southern Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Prester-John

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema quinatum   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002?   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Bog Jack-in-the-pulpit, Northern Jack-in-the-pulpit

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema stewardsonii   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. stewardsonii   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002?   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Bogs and peaty swamps

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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Common Name: Florida Jack-in-the-pulpit

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema acuminatum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002?   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Mesic forests

Uncommon

Native to Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Water Lettuce

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pistia stratiotes   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pistia stratiotes   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Stagnant or slow-moving waters of rivers, sometimes cultivated in ponds, where it persists for a while (presumably eventually eliminated by cold winters in the more northern parts of our area)

Rare or waif(s)

Native: peninsular Florida & the Tropics

 


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camera icon Common Name: Italian Arum, Lords-and-ladies

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Arum italicum ssp. italicum   FAMILY: Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arum italicum   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands, naturalizing from horticultural use

Rare

Non-native: Europe & northern Africa

 


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Common Name: Arrowleaf Elephant-ear, Malanga

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xanthosoma sagittifolium   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xanthosoma sagittifolium   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Ditches

Rare

Non-native: tropical America

 


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camera icon Common Name: Giant Elephant's-ear, Indian Taro

 

Non-native: southeast Asia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Elephant's-ear, Taro, Dasheen

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Colocasia esculenta   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Colocasia esculenta   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Ditches, shores, bottomland hardwood forests

Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Non-native: Tropics

 


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camera icon Common Name: Chinese Green Dragon, Fan-leaf Chinese Green Dragon, Pinellia

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia pedatisecta   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands

Waif(s)

Non-native: China

 


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camera icon Common Name: Green Dragon, Pinellia, Voodoo Lily

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia tripartita   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use

Rare

Non-native: Japan & Hong Kong

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Pinellia, Crow-dipper

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia ternata   FAMILY: Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pinellia ternata   FAMILY: Araceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use

Non-native: Japan

 


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