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Index of Subjects In my earlier reply I suggested mammals and birds probably do not store or move around Jack-in-the-Pulpit seeds b/c all parts of the plant are poisonous, as the field guides say. But I just read (Northern Woodlands, Summer '13, p4): "The most important summer bear foods are wild lettuce (three species), jack-in-the-pulpit, and jewelweed". So who knows? Nancy Sent from my iPhone On 2013-06-30, at 1:03 AM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > 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
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