The cuckoopint is an arum that appears in our woods in April, and is also known as lords-and-ladies, starch-root, Adam-and-Eve, bobbins and Wake Robin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The power of spring flowers] Reference

I give you this bouquetof saxifrage sneezewortspurge ragged robinasphodel lords-and-ladies.''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems for a wedding] Reference

I remember my mother's horror when I ate the lords-and-ladies berries that still grow by the garden walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hancox: All under one roof] Reference

Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Elginbrod] Reference

The annual survey of willd flowers by the charity Plantlife found plants that can tolerate high levels of nitrogen from the artificial fertilisers used in farming, like the common nettle, cow parsley and lords-and-ladies, are flourishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Melbury mounted on the other side, and they drove on out of the grove, their wheels silently crushing delicate-patterned mosses, hyacinths, primroses, lords-and-ladies, and other strange and ordinary plants, and cracking up little sticks that lay across the track.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

However the plain green form - commonly known as lords-and-ladies - is a bit of a pain except in the wildest of wild gardens, where its little red pokers of highly poisonous seeds that appear when the leaves die back in early autumn, look startlingly good for a week or three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The first business of this part of the tongue is, therefore, to warn us emphatically against caustic substances and corrosive acids, against vitriol and kerosene, spirits of wine and ether, capsicums and burning leaves or roots, such as those of the common English lords-and-ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference