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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema triphyllum
FAMILY
Araceae
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Learn more about Common Jack in the Pulpit from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arisaema triphyllum
COMMON NAME:
Common Jack in the Pulpit, Indian Turnip
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_artrt3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm200321_3291
March Polk County NC
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Ben Geer Keys bgk124_c
April
Spathe flange much wider than in A. stewardsonii, acuminatum, or pusillum, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm200411_3674
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200418_3943
April Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200418_3947
April Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm220421_7086
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
What's with the wavy edge?
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Keith Bradley kab_a_triphyllum_03089
April Greenville County SC
Caesars Head State Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_triphyllum_tri
April
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JK Marlow jkm0305s_21
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm0305z_10
May Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm0305z_11
May Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm160502_057
May Macon County NC
A plant that can change gender from one year to the next [here female], per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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JK Marlow jkm220517_7833
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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Teri Nye nye_1378_web
May Macon County NC
Spathe hides the tiny flowers at spadix base (male on left, female on right).
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Teri Nye nye_1456
May Macon County NC
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Ben Geer Keys bgk124_b
May?
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JK Marlow jkm190618_9286
June Greenville County SC
Arisaema's leaflets are pinnately veined; Trillium leaves are parallel-veined.
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JK Marlow jkm190618_9287
June Greenville County SC
The inflorescence is overtopped and often hidden by the 1-2 leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm210603_0920
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
The color variations are striking --
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JK Marlow jkm210603_0922
June Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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Patrick D. McMillan pdma_triphyllum
June Somerset County ME
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Ben Geer Keys bgk124_a
July
In cultivation
A solid green or purple-striped spathe (pulpit) surrounds the spadix (jack), per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm060704_004
July Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm160707_219
July Spartanburg County SC
Chinquapin Greenway
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6351
July Greenville County SC
Normally a pair of leaves, each palmately divided into thirds, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Tim Spira tps_atriphyllum
July
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JK Marlow jkm160818_621
August Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm080924_121
September Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160919_023
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Leaves glaucous beneath at maturity (vs A. stewardsonii, acuminatum, pusillum), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm210907_3576
September Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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Tim Spira tps_atriphyllum_frts
October
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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema triphyllum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arisaema triphyllum
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Forb
Perennial
Reversibly dioecious, or monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in mesic forests, bottomlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring
Spathe hood green or green striped with purple
Inflorescence a spadix
FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p103
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p224
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p129
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p103
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p036
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p296
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p036
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p470
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p128
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p156
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p012
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p012
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p338
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p390
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p335
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p003