Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) is a unusual and beautiful plant. The leaf is very interesting with three pointed oval leaflets that can be up too seven inches long.
Jack-in-the-pulpit had many uses for Native Americans. The corm or root was most often used. It was used to treat just about everything from sore eyes to snakebites.
Jack-in-the-pulpit undergoes a mid life sex change going from male staminate changing to female pistillate at about three years old.
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