Arisaema dracontium Summer Flowering Plants clothed in dark green

clothed in dark green

Emerging from the ground each season

The zig-zag black stems are clothed with tiny round leaves forming a nice 1" tall

basal green leaves in October

It also is good cut flower

Arisaema dracontium Summer Flowering Plants clothed in dark greenArisaema 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 is 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,