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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Do you have Arisaema or Pinellia?
Learn more about Small Jack in the Pulpit from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Arisaema triphyllum var. 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 pusillum
COMMON NAME:
Small Jack in the Pulpit
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Patrick D. McMillan pdma_pusillum
April Pickens County SC
SC Botanical Garden
Spathe flange 1-3mm broad, hood solid green or solid purple, apex acute, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_a_triphyllumpusillum1
May Moore County NC
Leaves green beneath at maturity (very rarely glaucous), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Arisaema pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Arisaema triphyllum var. 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 pusillum
4038
Forb
Perennial
Reversibly dioecious, or monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in swamps and moist forests, 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 leaflets
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring
Spathe hood solid green or solid 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 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?