Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) has been blooming for about a week in the Pittsburgh area.
The flower usually looks like this (click here) with three-part leaves and a long curving hood.
Dianne lifted Jack’s roof to show his beautifully decorated pulpit.
Some flowers don’t have such bold stripes inside. You’ll have to lift Jack’s lid to see.
(photo by Dianne Machesney)
I think I was about 4 years old (eons ago) when my Grandmother showed me my first Jack in the Pulpit. I loved it then and still do now!
This is one of my favorite wildflowers and it grows throughout the local park in Washington Pa. Nice photograph!