1. Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
   "The Arum maculatum's distinctive purple spadix appears in early spring";
   - cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit

Type of: aroid, arum

Part of: genus Arum

Encyclopedia: Arum maculatum