Arisaema atrorubens
Jack in the Pulpit
Family Araceae
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Use
Chips, Flour. The thinly sliced corms thoroughly dried, can be eaten like potato chips or ground into flour. Warning: do not consume the corms raw. They contain Calcium oxalate.
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Description
Growth Form: Small herbaceous plant 1-3 ft in size. One stalk with spadix at end, leaves and fruit in the middle. Walnut-sized corm.
Leaves: 1-2 on stalk. 3-part leaves. Large, succulent.
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Leaves
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 Fruit
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Fruits: A cluster of bright red berries.
Flower: Club shaped spadix with a purplish brown spathe.
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Habitat and Range
Areas with rich soil such as woods, thickets, and swamps. Canada to Kansas and Tennesee.
Season
Fall to early Spring.
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Fruit
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Flower, Photo by (C) Dan L. Perlman (ecolibrary.org)
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Fun Facts
The spadix is covered with tiny male and female flowers.
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