Never seen this. What is it?

[GraceNmercy]

So I posted this on my property thread, but haven't yet got an ID on it. Started to send it to a biologist to see if he knew. There were several of them growing and something had been eating on one...

 

[Charleston Treeman]

That cluster looks like Arisaema dracontium common name of dragon-root or green Dragon. The foliage does not. Is this a wet site?

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[GraceNmercy]

It's near a creek ad its been pretty wet this year, so yes. I didn't see a leaf on any of these...just a bunch of the colorful clusters shown in the pic. A couple of years back on an elevated hillside under the canopy of some old hardwoods I did come across a few green dragon plants that were identified by some of the members here, but I never noticed any fruit or seed on any of those, but only the unique shaped leaf. This could be the fruit, but I just didn't see any leave on any of them to confirm it.

 

[Native Hunter]

That's "Jack in the Pulpit" or "Green Dragon." Hard to tell apart without seeing different views of plant and leaves.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit has compound leaves with 3 leaves, and GD has compound leaves with 5-13 leaflets

 

[chadmyers]

This app is very helpful


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[Doe Shooter]

I always called it indian radish. Pretty common around here.