next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects
Dear All, June 30, 2013
A year after I made a woods road in North Alton (about 1988) two plants
of Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema stewardsonii) appeared on disturbed soil
generated by pick and shovel grading; the only 'stands' in these 70 acres
that I have noticed. This rises the question of seed mobility. Do Squirrels
or Mice dry and store these berries ?
One survived only a few years and the second, helped perhaps by my
cutting invading shrubs back, has gradually become well established.and in
recent years has had several blossoms. This year it established a new
record; 8 flowers earlier and 12 at last count (June 27); five now reduced
to pale husks presumably over developing berries. So to really get a firm
toehold it took 25 years.
This plant is usually found only in seasonally swampy areas but this is
I think only because the loose soil generated by frost action in soil over a
shallow water table enables establishment of seedlings. The most vigorous
plant I have encountered (1996), easily 1 metre tall, was on a steep slope
of shifting soil produced when soil from a 101 highway cut was pushed over a
slope during construction (west of exit 13; about 1970?).
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects