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Genus: A

Acanthus: bear's breech
Acorus: sweet flag
Actinidia: hardy kiwi fruit; bower vine; kolomikta vine; tara vine
Adiantum: northern maidenhair fern
Aegopodium: variegated bishop's weed
Agastache: Giant hyssop
Ajuga: Bugleweed
Akebia: five-leaved akebia
Allium: onion; chives
Ammophila: American beachgrass
Amphicarpaea: hog peanut
Amsonia: Arkansas blue-star; blue star; thread-leaf blue star; willow amsonia
Andropogon: big bluestem; turkey-foot
Anemone: Canada anemone
Anthoxanthum: sweet vernal grass
Apios: Indian potato; groundnut
Aquilegia: Columbine
Aralia: sarsparilla
Arctostaphylos: bearberry; kinnikinick
Arenaria: irish moss
Arisaema: Jack-in-the-pulpit
Aristolochia: Dutchman's pipe
Armeria: sea pink
Aruncus: Goatsbeard
Arundinaria: canebrake bamboo; large cane; small canebrake bamboo; southern cane; switch cane
Arundo: giant reed; Italian reed; cana brava
Asarum: Wild ginger
Asclepias: butterfly weed; swamp milkweed
Asimina: pawpaw
Asplenium: ebony spleenwort
Aster: aster
Athyrium: Japanese painted fern; lady fern
Atrichum: (moss)

Catalog as of September 21, 2008

Arisaema

(Araceae - arum family)

Over 190 species of tuberous herbs, native mostly to the Old World. Many species are cultivated as ornamentals for their unusual spring blooms, their pleasing foliage, and showy fruits. Arisaemas prefer a moist, rich, well-drained, humusy soil. The fruits are eaten by birds including wild turkey and wood thrush. Shipped as dormant tubers, which should be planted with 2-3" of loose soil over them.

triphyllum

peren • ht 1-2' • zones 4-9

Jack-in-the-pulpit

new, native, wildlife, moist - wet, part shade - shade
e and cent N Amer

Bears large, 3-parted leaves on upright stems. The distinctive, unusual flower which gives the plant its name appears beneath the leave in late spring. The flower is a tubular, fluted column "pulpit" capped with a tightly rolled hood. The hood, which is striped inside with green and white, encloses the club-like spadix ("Jack"). The plant's name is drawn from this flower, which bears a resemblance to a medieval style church pulpit with a figure atop it. The cluster of showy, bright red berries appears in fall. Plant has been used medicinally.

cat # 7V7V
$8.95 each