Arisaema dracontium

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Arisaema dracontium is one of the least known of the US native Jack-in-the-Pulpits and certainly the most confused in the commercial trade. Almost nothing we've seen sold as such i s even the correct genus. The most common imposter are some of the weedy pinellias. Green dragons most closely resemble Arisaema heterophyllum except the offset prolifically to form a significant clump. From an underground tuber in mid-May emerges the 18" dusty-green stalk, topped with a horseshoe-like arrangement of 7-15 leaflets. Emerging alongside the leaf stalk is a narrow green hood to 2-3". Emerging from the hood (spathe) is a rigidly upright, threadlike, yellow tongue...probably from some social disease. Green dragons go dormant in midsummer, so don't panic. Show more