Tall Jack in the Pulpit.  These grow into big boys with a big green flower and distinctive vertical spadix held well above the foliage.  This merits that overused word of awesome especially when it gets 5' tall and you are eye-to-eye with that intriguing flower.  Showy seed cluster too!

Helmeted Cobra Lily.  This is a rare species from the Indian Himalayan foothills.  Tall stems to 4'+ carry big 3-parted leaves and strongly cowled or helmeted flowers varying from green with white stripes to purplish.  Choice plant and one to brag about.  Has done great in our shade garden.

Rare species of Jack in the Pulpit and even rarer in this brown form.  The typical folded in green spathe is washed in purplish brown in this form.   Unique in this genus in having no spadix or just a nubbin so perhaps Jackless in the Pulpit is a better name.  Excellent increaser, nice new growth.

This is a heralded Japanese Jack in the Pulpit whose species name sikokianum I believe translates into English as 'divine whup-ass' because this truly and gloriously kicks some tail in the garden.  A mysterious yet provocative regal beauty.  A classic for the shade garden.

Very hardy Jack in the Pulpit which is the Asian equivalent of our eastern US Arisaema triphyllum.  This Jack is native to the Russian Far East, northern China and Korea and is a variable species but always has green flowers with stripes that are usually white but can be sort of a chocolate purple.  Good bulb for light shade to morning sun.

This are extra large bulbs of this durable Japanese and Korean species.  Broad glossy trifoliate leaves wing out above the green and white striped cowled flower with distinctive mahogany rimming to the spathe tube of the flower.  Shade to some sun.

Jack in the Pulpit. One of the more refined Himalayan 'Jacks' with a graceful purple and white or sometimes green and white striped flower held beneath the spokes of long narrow leaflets. This adds an exotic touch and increases by offsets and by seed - the latter when it gets its party on by having both sexes in the flower.

This has stout stems that can reach 4' on old large bulbs with many leaflets arrayed like the spokes of an umbrella. Large green flowers often tinged with purple followed by red fruit. Ours often don't appear above ground until early June so be patient!

Excellent Chinese species which has grown and multiplied in our garden for 15 years.  Broad trifoliate leaves with flowers sporting a swollen yellow spadix held below the foliage. Once pollinated, the stem bearing the fruiting head elongates until the red fruit is held well above the leaves.  In Sichuan, we saw this flowering amidst carpets of Corydalis flexuosa in bloom - no wonder their spadices were dilated!

An exceptional selection by Duane West of presumably consanguineum. What sets this apart is the sultry smokiness of the new growth - the expanding radial array of leaflets colored darkly in alluring Mystery and Promise. The pseudostem leans strongly against the bar and beckons, allowing the olive flowers to stand proud.

A silver-patterned selection of this durable garden species of Jack in the Pulpit.  A silver wash plays along the midrib of each leaflet spoke in the radial foliar wheel which makes this exotic leaf even more exotic.  Green flowers with a long drip tip on the spathe limb cap turn into fruit like an orange ear of corn and you are on your way to lots more.

A collection from Guizhou of this species in the Sinarisaema section and which is likely part of the variable Arisaema consanguineum complex. This has up to 8 radially arranged leaflets with attractive green flowers with pale white stripes held beneath. The long, attenuated drip-tip of the spathe-limb is softly chocolate colored and adds considerably to the allure.

A bold species which we have seen and collected in China, this has a single impressive entire leaf until it hits flowering size and then it is impressively trifoliate.  Lovely purple spathe with white stripes and best of all, an easy grower.  Thanks to Jacques and Andrea Thompson for sharing seed which led to these bulbs.

This collection is from the species elevational limit in the confluence of Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan. This species is well-represented in gardens but from areas with much less cold exposure.  Paired pedate leaves of splayed finger-like leaflets and sizable green flower standing proud above with an even prouder erect spadix.

Elegant, graceful and beautiful form of the species with thin radially arranged leaflets and lovely narrow-waisted dark purple flowers accented by white stripes held fully visible below.  The spathe limb or hood of the flower tapers to a long thread.  This variety lacks hairs on the spathe tube rim or lip which would need magnification to see anyway.