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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 22 taxa in the family Araceae, Arum family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
European Sweetflag, European Calamus
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Acorus calamus FAMILY: Acoraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Acorus calamus FAMILY: Acoraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Acorus calamus 032-01-001 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Marshes, wet meadows, other wet areas
Uncommon in NC & in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA & SC)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Sweetflag, American Calamus
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Acorus americanus FAMILY: Acoraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Acorus americanus FAMILY: Acoraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Acorus calamus 032-01-001? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Marshes, wet meadows, other wet areas, limey seeps
Native
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Common Name:
Golden Club, Never-wet, Bog Torches
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Orontium aquaticum FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orontium aquaticum FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Orontium aquaticum 032-02-001 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Generally in peaty and stagnant water (acidic to calcareous), such as beaver ponds, blackwater streams, swamps, pools in low pocosins, streambeds in the Piedmont, bogs and swamps in the mountains, tidal freshwater marshes
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Skunk Cabbage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Symplocarpus foetidus FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Symplocarpus foetidus FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Symplocarpus foetidus 032-03-001 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Seepage-fed bogs and nonalluvial swamps
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Peltandra virginica FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Peltandra virginica FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Peltandra virginica 032-04-001 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Arrow-arum, White Arum, Spoonflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Peltandra sagittifolia FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Peltandra sagittifolia FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Peltandra sagittaefolia 032-04-002 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Pocosins of the outer Coastal Plain, sphagnous swamps
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Green Dragon
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema dracontium FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema dracontium FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema dracontium 032-05-001 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Bottomlands and floodplains, rarely in uplands over mafic or calcareous rocks or substrates
Uncommon (rare in Mountains & GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Green Dragon
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema species 1 FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema dracontium FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Bottomlands and floodplains over calcareous substrates
Native to Alabama & Florida, etc.
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Common Name:
Common Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Indian Turnip
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema triphyllum FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002 FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema species 2 FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small Jack-in-the-pulpit, Swamp Jack
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema pusillum FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Swamps and moist forests
Common in Mountains, common in NC (uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC) (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Preacher John, Southern Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Prester-John
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema quinatum FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Mesic forests, bottomlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Jack-in-the-pulpit, Northern Jack-in-the-pulpit
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema stewardsonii FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. stewardsonii FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Bogs and peaty swamps
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Common Name: Florida Jack-in-the-pulpit
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Arisaema acuminatum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Arisaema triphyllum 032-05-002? FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Mesic forests
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Lettuce
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pistia stratiotes FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pistia stratiotes FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Stagnant or slow-moving waters of rivers, sometimes cultivated in ponds, where it persists for a while (presumably eventually eliminated by cold winters in the more northern parts of our area)
Rare or waif(s)
Native: peninsular Florida & the Tropics
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Common Name:
Italian Arum, Lords-and-ladies
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Arum italicum ssp. italicum FAMILY: Araceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Arum italicum FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, naturalizing from horticultural use
Rare
Non-native: Europe & northern Africa
Common Name: Arrowleaf Elephant-ear, Malanga
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Xanthosoma sagittifolium FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xanthosoma sagittifolium FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Ditches
Rare
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Elephant's-ear, Taro, Dasheen
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Colocasia esculenta FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Colocasia esculenta FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Ditches, shores, bottomland hardwood forests
Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Chinese Green Dragon, Fan-leaf Chinese Green Dragon, Pinellia
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia pedatisecta FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands
Waif(s)
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Green Dragon, Pinellia, Voodoo Lily
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia tripartita FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use
Rare
Non-native: Japan & Hong Kong
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Common Name:
Pinellia, Crow-dipper
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Pinellia ternata FAMILY: Araceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pinellia ternata FAMILY: Araceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use
Non-native: Japan
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