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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Do you have Arisaema or Pinellia?
To look for this species, work in wetter bottomlands, and look for a fairly small plant, with the undersides of the leaves (leaflets) green (and not glaucous), and with an unstriped hood and lightly striped spathe. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Arisaema triphyllum
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, Swamp Jack
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_063
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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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum
FAMILY
Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Arisaema triphyllum
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
Habitat: swamps and moist forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, common in NC (uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC) (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring
Spathe hood solid green or solid purple
Inflorescence a spadix (cylindrical and blunt, included in the spathe)
FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p103?
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p224?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p129?
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p103?
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p036?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p296?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p279
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p036
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p128?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p156?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p012?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p338?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p390?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p335?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p003?
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