Jack-In-The-Pulpit

Arisaema triphyllum Araceae

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Native distribution

Native to the Finger Lakes Region, Eastern North America

Location

Robison Herb Garden, Tarr-Young Preserve

Source of plant

Lazy S's Farm Nursery

Description

To 60cm. Leaves 2 (occasionally 1 or 3), leaflets 8-15—3-7cm, 3, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute; petiole sometimes spotted purple, usually exceeding peduncle. Spathe to 15cm, green to purple, striped green or white, margins of tube reflexed, limb acute-acuminate, incurved; spadix appendix to 7cm, stipitate, erect, exserted from tube, clavate to cylindric, green to purple, or purple-flecked.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4