RE: native North American aroids

From: Bob Burns bobburns61 at yahoo.com> on 1999.12.10 at 15:07:34(3918) here are the native aroids, as I understand them: Calla palustris, in the far north. Symplocarpus foetidus, in the East. Acorus calamus, in wet spots wherever. Arisaema triphyllum; some writers divide this in two or three species; Eastern. Arisaema dracontium, also Eastern. Orontium aquaticum, mostly SE Peltandra virginica, Eastern. +More P. sagittaefolia, SE Lysichitum americanum, the only Western native. Pistia stratiotes, subtropical FL A useful category to add might be the naturalized species, which are capable of colonizing new habitats and reproducing. Maybe a good hypothetical question to ask about them is 'would they persist if people disappeared?' I'd consider chief among these: Zantedeschia aethiopica, in CA Colocasia esculenta or close relatives, through the warm SE and FL Pinellia ternata, in the NE- NY and NJ and spreading. Anyone seen others going wild? As was said before, in warm FL the number is legion. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

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