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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-05-001:

Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Muricauda dracontium

 

COMMON NAME:
Green Dragon


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image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ardr3_001_lvd

        

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_ardr3_005_lvd

        

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm070414_018

April    Calhoun County    SC

Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm170401_430

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm200422_4048

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm150519_081

May    Calhoun County    SC

Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve

Leaf with (5)7-15 leaflets, arranged pedately on a semicircular axis, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm230531_3698

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm230531_3700

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Spathe hood 2.5-3.5cm long, tightly enclosing the spadix, 1-1.5cm broad when unrolled, per A Review of Arisaema (Araceae) in North America: Nine species instead of two? (Wyatt & Stoneburner, 2022).

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm230531_3711

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Flowers lack sepals and petals and may be all female, all male, or both (with the female lowest), per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_dracontium_7_4b

May        

Spadices very long, attenuate, and strongly exserted from the tightly enclosing spathe, per A Review of Arisaema (Araceae) in North America: Nine species instead of two? (Wyatt & Stoneburner, 2022).

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm190618_9284

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Wow! Jack in the Pulpit on the left; Green Dragon on the right.

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

JK Marlow    jkm220626_8730

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

Betsy George    bmg_070513_1766

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

Stephanie C. Brundage    scb_072022SHighlandsRes47

July    Transylvania County    NC

Southern Highlands Reserve, Lake Toxaway

The leafstalk terminates in the center of a single, compound, curving blade, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Arisaema dracontium, Green Dragon

Stephanie C. Brundage    scb_072022SHighlandsRes48

July    Transylvania County    NC

Southern Highlands Reserve, Lake Toxaway

Fruit a cluster of orange-red berries in a conical head at tip of spadix, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Arisaema dracontium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 032-05-001:
Arisaema dracontium   FAMILY Araceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Muricauda dracontium

 

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Forb
Perennial
Reversibly dioecious, or monoecious

Habitat: Bottomlands and floodplains, rarely in uplands over mafic or calcareous rocks or substrates, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Mountains & GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Compound: 7-15 leaflets, arranged pedately on a semicircular axis
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Spathe yellowish-green, tightly enclosing the spadix, 1-1.5cm broad when unrolled/flattened

Inflorescence a spadix (attenuate, long-exserted from the spathe)

FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Berry

 

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