noun

• The common European wild arum of woodland and hedgerows, with a pale spathe and a purple or green spadix followed by bright red berries.

  Also called lords and ladies or Jack-in-the-pulpit

  Arum maculatum, family Araceae

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  • ‘Celandine, cow parsley, cuckoo pint, goosegrass and bluebells also only put out the most tentative shoots, but deadnettles did not appear at all, and rosemary did not flower.’