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Habitat: |
open, moist to mesic (wet) woods |
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Plant Height: |
30-60 cm, erect stem |
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Flower Color: |
yellow to green, visible spathe usually green stripped with brown/red |
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Flower: |
incomplete; small unisexual flowers at base of spadix; staminate and pistillate flowers often on separate plants |
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Inflorescence: |
typically 3-4" tall; solitary spadix surrounded by spathe which is green or brownish colored often streaked or mottled |
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Fruit: |
shiny, red clustered berries |
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Leaves: |
entire; compound; three ovate leaflets on a basal stalk |
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Bloom Time: |
April-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
Native Americans gathered fleshy corms for food, thought in the uncooked state, this plant can severely irritate the mouth; some authors separate into several species depending on size and region growing; similar to A. dracontium though more frequent | |