jack-in-the-pulpit

(noun) common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries. Synonyms: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens.

(noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum. Synonyms: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum.