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Sweetflag,
Acorus calamus
Inflorescence a cylindric tapering spadix; leaf-like spathe continues up, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Golden Club,
Orontium aquaticum
An erect, conspicuous, golden-yellow clublike spadix (fleshy flower stalk), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Skunk Cabbage,
Symplocarpus foetidus
The spathe encloses a ball-like spadix with numerous tiny flowers, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Green Arrow-arum,
Peltandra virginica
Slender club-shaped spadix enclosed in a narrow pointed green spathe, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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White Arrow-arum,
Peltandra sagittifolia
Inflorescence a spadix subtended by a flared, open, white spathe, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Green Dragon,
Arisaema dracontium
Flowers in a fleshy spike (spadix) protruding from a nearly closed spathe, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Green Dragon,
Arisaema dracontium
Flowers at the base of a spadix with a long, sterile tip ("dragon's tail"), per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
Spathe hides the tiny flowers at spadix base (male on left, female on right).
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Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
A solid green or purple-striped spathe (pulpit) surrounds the spadix (jack), per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
The bright red berries are found clustered at base of the spadix in autumn, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Pinellia,
Pinellia ternata
Spadix fused to the spathe (vs. spadix free from the spathe in Arisaema), per Weakley's Flora.
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Green Dragon,
Pinellia tripartita
Spadix has a 7-10" whip-like extension which emerges upward from the spathe, per www.missouribotanicalgarden.org.
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Chinese Green Dragon,
Pinellia pedatisecta
The Pinellia spadix is fused to the back of the spathe for some distance, per International Aroid Society.
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Elephant's Ear,
Colocasia esculenta
Tiny flowers on a fleshy stalk (spadix) covered by a yellow hood (spathe), per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.