jack-in-the-pulpit

• “Box turtles are attracted to plants with red fruit such as strawberries, raspberries and jack-in-the-pulpit plants.”

  The Huffington Post: David Mizejewski: Garden for Wildlife Month Ends This Weekend

• “In those early summers she was no taller than the goldenrod, just a head above the jack-in-the-pulpit that flanked the trails between the barn and woods.”

  Simon & Schuster: So Much Pretty

• “Standing in the doorway, Georgia was fascinated as the bright-eyed woman held up a jack-in-the-pulpit plant in order to let the students examine the unusual shapes and subtle shades of its interior.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portrait of An Artist

• “The modest violet, the jack-in-the-pulpit, even the four-leaf clovers will tell you stories about the forest and the field, so that wherever you walk you will be surrounded by your friends.”

  The Elson Readers, Book 5

• “It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “Gray olive trees were on either side, and on the bordering banks grew lovely wild flowers, starry purple anemones, jack-in-the-pulpit lilies, yellow oxalis, moon-daisies, and the beautiful genista which we treasure as a conservatory plant in England.”

  The Jolliest School of All

• “I'll not deny that flowers pop up their heads afield without such call, that the jack-in-the-pulpit speaks its maiden sermon on some other beckoning of nature.”

  Journeys to Bagdad

• “There were sedgy plants in bloom, jack-in-the-pulpit, and what might have been a lily, with a more euphonious name.”

  A Little Girl in Old Salem

• “Britain -- the "lords and ladies" of the village lanes, the foreign counterpart of our well-known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian-turnip, with its purple-streaked canopy, and sleek "preacher" standing erect beneath it.”

  My Studio Neighbors

• “Occasionally, however, as in the cypripedium and in certain of the arums, or "jack-in-the-pulpit," and aristolochias, the welcome becomes somewhat aggressive, the guest being forcibly detained awhile after tea, or, as in the case of our milkweed, occasionally entrapped for life.”

  My Studio Neighbors

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