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It has unisexual flowers, producing separate male and female flowers. Most plant species with separate male and female flowers are monoecious, with male and female flowers occurring on the same plant, ...
Our common, or large, jack-in-the-pulpit bears flowers that come in many colors: green, brown; often with stripes. However, we also have a subspecies in our area (Arisaema dracontium) that looks ...
These two jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema species may fake out their male gnat pollinators by wafting scents of gnat sex, but the plants (A. angustatum, left, and A. peninsulae, right) are dangerous ...
A close look at the Jack-in-the-pulpit flower. Note the spadix sticking up (the Jack) and the spathe (the pulpit) overhead. Contributed / Larry Weber. By Larry Weber. May 27, 2022 at 6:19 AM.
Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers – famed for trapping and killing their pollinators – might also serve as a nursery for the insects’ eggs, revealing a more nuanced and mutually beneficial ...