NAME: Jack-in-the-Pulpit

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Bog onion, brown dragon, Indian turnip, American wake robin

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Arisaema triphyllum

COLOR: Burgundy/Red/Green/White

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoor after danger of frost OR indoor in trays

HARVEST: NA

PLANT HEIGHT: 18-24"

PLANT SPACING: 12-15"

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Partial Shade preferred

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Low

QUANTITY: 10 Seeds

OTHER: Named for its resemblance to a preacher in a canopied pulpit. The faint fragrance attracts pollinating insects to the flowering spadix, or “Jack.” Produces large, glossy leaflets and a 2-3” flower with a green striped hood shielding a green spike. It is native to eastern North America, occurring in moist woodlands and thickets from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, and south to southern Florida and Texas. Plants are sometimes confused with Poison-ivy especially before the flowers appear or non-flowering plants. 

USDA Zone: 3a-9b 

Bloom Time: Spring-Early Summer 
Height: 18-24 inches 
Spacing: 12-15 inches 
Light: Part Sun to Woodland 
Soil Moisture: Medium to Wet 
USDA Zone: 3a-9b 
Produces large, glossy leaflets and a 2-3” flower with a green striped hood shielding a green spike

 

 

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