This bulb grows a pretty plant and a berry cluster that's red when mature. What is it?

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This is the foilage at the top of the stem.

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The immature green berry cluster that will soon turn bright red

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A mature plant with a family of smaller ones.

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Another angle of the plant with the single berry cluster

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Midday shot of plant on a sunny day with shadow on the berry

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This is the foilage at the top of the stem.

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I have baseball size bulbs that grow plants aprox. 3 ft. tall, on a single stem, in shade and partial sun. The leaves grow in an arch shape on top of the main stem, in a symetrical balanced pattern.  From the center of the stem, between the ground and the foilage, will grow a cluster of berries that are green when they appear and then later turn red when mature. I've never seen a flower on the plant, just the berries that are covered up with a thin leaf shoot that dies and exposes the berry ball on the end of its own stem. Soon after they turn red the plant will die back. I thought it to be a Jack in the Pulpit but after looking at pictures realized it isn't quite the same. Smaller plants grow from the base and multiply.  What is this pretty plant?

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Is it a weed? It's sprung up everywhere!!

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RAMBLENROSE writes: http://www.easywildflowers.com/quality/ari.dra.htm

this is what I found Posted: 5:00 am on July 27th

ingin writes: Thank you kclark259! I searched it online and found some pictures of it and you are exactly correct! Posted: 4:06 pm on June 29th

kclark2359 writes: This may be a Green Dragon Plant Arisaema dracontium Posted: 10:26 pm on June 27th

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