Intro: Erect perennial found in bottomlands and floodplains, and occasionally in uplands over mafic rocks.

Stems:

Leaves: Leaf single, on a long petiole (to 20 in.), forked and divided into 5-15 elliptic leaflets arranged on a semi-circular axis.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a yellowish-green, long-tipped spadix terminating a separate stalk and partially enclosed by a pale green, leaf-like spathe; flowers minute, lacking petals and sepals; a plant may have all female, all male, or both kinds of flowers, in which case female flowers are lowest on the spadix.

Fruits: Fruit orange-red berries in a conical head at tip of spadix.

Comments:

Height: 1-2 ft.

plant sale text: A low wet area is an ideal site for Green Dragons. Average garden soil is fine, too. Its dramatic flower-like spathes have a hood and "tongue" hence their common name of Green Dragon. This plant is related to Jack-in-the-Pulpit, although it is less common. The handsome dissected leaves of the Green Dragon provide an excellent contrast to more delicate woodland plants.

bloom table text:

description: Erect perennial found in bottomlands and floodplains, and occasionally in uplands over mafic rocks.

stems:

leaves: Leaf single, on a long petiole (to 20 in.), forked and divided into 5-15 elliptic leaflets arranged on a semi-circular axis.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a yellowish-green, long-tipped spadix terminating a separate stalk and partially enclosed by a pale green, leaf-like spathe; flowers minute, lacking petals and sepals; a plant may have all female, all male, or both kinds of flowers, in which case female flowers are lowest on the spadix.

fruits: Fruit orange-red berries in a conical head at tip of spadix.

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native range: eastern North America