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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Araceae
Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott
dragon-root, green dragon
Arisaema: Greek aris, a kind of arum, and haema for "blood"
dracontium: Latin for "of the dragons" probably for the deeply divided leaves resembling a dragon's claw
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-3' tall forb |
| Flower: | green; inflorescence a long, tapering, narrowly-pointed spadix with tiny flowers covering only the lower section; the long, green, thin, whip-like spathe is longer than the spadix; blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | round cluster of red berries |
| Leaf: | usually 1 long-stalked leaf divided into 7-13 leaflets |
| Habitat: | moist; woods |
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