Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema quinatum
FAMILY
Araceae
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Learn more about Southern Jack in the Pulpit from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum
FAMILY
Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Biosystematics of the Arisaema triphyllum complex (Treiber, 1980)
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
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 quinatum
COMMON NAME:
Southern Jack in the Pulpit, Preacher John, Prester-John
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JK Marlow jkm070407_029
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Lateral leaflets (of primary leaf) 2-parted or 2-lobed (rarely unlobed), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120424_647
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4044
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm110510_368
May Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Lateral leaflets are deeply bilobed, so leaves appear to have 5 leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm110510_385
May Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Leaves glaucous beneath at maturity, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm160502_025
May Transylvania County NC
Often considered to be a variety of, or not distinct from, A. triphyllum, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm160502_027
May Transylvania County NC
Spathe flange 2-9mm broad; hood green, obtuse to abruptly acute, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0381
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120728_049
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Spathe withers after flowering, replaced by a showy cluster of red berries, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema quinatum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum
FAMILY
Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Biosystematics of the Arisaema triphyllum complex (Treiber, 1980)
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
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 quinatum
2921
Forb
Perennial
Reversibly dioecious, or monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon
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.
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: (3)5 leaflets
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring
Spathe hood green
Inflorescence a spadix
FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p224
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p338
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p390