Today when I went to the meetinghouse to water the new long leaf pine I walked back to the creek and was glad to see that the Green Dragon (Arisaema dracontium) has returned everywhere that we saw it last year. This is a relative of the Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) but as you can see its spadix is rather more stretched out than "Jack" is.
I had been somewhat anxious since they all disappeared last fall shortly after I sprayed herbicide on Air Potatoes. I had hoped that it coincidence, that it happened to be the time for the Green Dragon to be done for the year, and this seems to be the case. All of the plants I saw had flowers. We only discovered them last fall, so we don't know if they flowered last year, but we don't remember having seen any berries. It may be that they appreciated the wetter spring this year.
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