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

[ Syn: indian turnip , wake-robin , arisaema triphyllum , arisaema atrorubens ]

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

[ Syn: cuckoopint , lords-and-ladies , arum maculatum ]