Distribution and localisation map
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
Arisème petit-prêcheur
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- Identification
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Territory:
The Jack-in-the-pulpit is found from Témiscamingue in the west until the beginning of the Gaspé Peninsula in the east, through the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean north, absent thus from Abitibi, the North Shore and of course the Great and Middle North and the far East part of the Gaspe Peninsula.Habitat:
Wet places, edge of streams, rivers and lakes and semi-swampy lands.Flowering:
In bloom in mid spring, fruits appears in late summer.Similar:
The Green dragon has only one leaf with 7 to 11 leaflets and can be found only is some islands of the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Trois-Rivières.There are three subspecies of the Jack-in-the-pulpit, in addition to the generic type (subsp. triphyllum) described here, there is the Small Jack-in-the-pulpit (subsp. pusillum), with a smaller spadix, which often has purple solid area on the top of the inside of the spathe and the Stewardson's Jack-in-the-pulpit (subsp. stewardsonii) spathe striped with green and white.
