OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema species 2   FAMILY Araceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum   FAMILY Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Arisaema triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Arisaema triphyllum var. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-05-002?:

Arisaema triphyllum   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Arisaema atrorubens

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Arisaema triphyllum

 

COMMON NAME:
Jack-in-the-Pulpit


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image of Arisaema species 2, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_063

        

image of Arisaema species 2, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_artrt3_001_lvd

        

image of Arisaema species 2, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

JK Marlow    jkm210603_0920

June    Greenville County    SC

Blackwell Heritage Preserve

Spathe hood underside purple w white stripes reaching just above spadix (median stripe farther), per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Arisaema species 2, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

JK Marlow    jkm210603_0922

June    Greenville County    SC

Blackwell Heritage Preserve

This striking entity is under study by Wyatt & Stoneburner, per A Review of Arisaema (Araceae) in North America: Nine species instead of two? (Wyatt & Stoneburner, 2022).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema species 2   FAMILY Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum   FAMILY Araceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Arisaema triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Arisaema triphyllum var. triphyllum

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-05-002?:
Arisaema triphyllum   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Arisaema atrorubens

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arisaema triphyllum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4767

Forb
Perennial
Reversibly dioecious, or monoecious

Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring
Spathe hood underside purple with white stripes reaching just above the spadix, median stripe extending farther

Inflorescence a spadix (cylindrical and blunt, included in the spathe)

FRUIT:
Red
Berry

 

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