jack-in-the-pulpit

noun

1

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

Synonym: cuckoopint lords-and-ladies Arum maculatum

2

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

Synonym: Indian turnip wake-robin Arisaema triphyllum Arisaema atrorubens