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Cuckoo-pint
Arum maculatum
Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the Araceae family. It is widespread across most of Europe, as well as Turkey and the Caucasus. It is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast. The name...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.45
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.66
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.46
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.75
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.47
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.9
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.8
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.8
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.45
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.83
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.29
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.63
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Arum maculatum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61318.