jack-in-the-pulpit

Noun

• common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum

• common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cuckoopint , lords-and-ladies , Arum maculatum , Indian turnip , wake-robin , Arisaema triphyllum , Arisaema atrorubens