wake-robin

noun

1

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

Synonym: jack-in-the-pulpit Indian turnip Arisaema triphyllum Arisaema atrorubens

2

any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower

Synonym: trillium wood lily