Arisaema dracontium Scutellaria The deeply-guttered grey-green upright

The deeply-guttered grey-green upright

As the leaves unfurl

Despite most of what you read on-line

A 5-year-old patch will spread to 3' wide

(aka: Phyllitis scolopendrium v

Arisaema dracontium Scutellaria The deeply-guttered grey-green uprightArisaema dracontium is one of the least known of the US native Jack in the Pulpits and certainly the most confused in the commercial trade. Almost nothing we've seen sold as such is even the correct genus. The most common imposter are some of the weedy pinellias. Green dragons most closely resemble Arisaema heterophyllum except the offset prolifically to form a significant clump. From an underground tuber in mid May emerges the 18" dusty green stalk,