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Common Name: Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Scientific Name: Arisaema triphyllum
Family Name: Araceae
Pearson Falls Road and Green River Cove Road.
Saluda, North Carolina
April 13, 2002
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The colorful green spate, 2-4 inches long and variously striped with maroon, forms the "pulpit" that more or less encloses the erect, cylindrical spadix with its minute flowers. The spate withers eventually exposing the fleshy, scarlet berries. The raw corm is very pungent but is edible when boiled. These native perennials are found in low woods and bogs at scattered localities throughout the state and in much of the eastern U.S. March - April [Justice, William S. and Bell, C. Ritchie, Wild Flowers of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1968]
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Alphabetical Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Family Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
