Name Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Species Arisaema Triphyllum
Family Araceae
When April – June
Height 12 – 36 inches
Where Found in woods and swamps

Info

This plant is known for its ability to change gender.

The flaplike spathe is green or purplish brown, often striped, and curves gracefully over the club-shaped spadix (the “Jack” or preacher in his canopied pulpit). Flowers tiny, at base of spadix; staminate and pistillate flowers often on separate plants. Leaves 1 or 2, long-stalked, 3-parted. Fruit a cluster of scarlet berries.

Please do not pick these flowers.