jack-in-the-pulpit, n.
common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
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Arum maculatum cuckoopint jack-in-the-pulpit lords-and-ladies
common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
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Arisaema atrorubens Arisaema triphyllum Indian turnip jack-in-the-pulpit wake-robin