What type of plant is this

[Edgara]

Hi good afternoon i was moving some chickens today and found a pretty looking plant and was wondering if any of you know what it is called

 

[CluckerFamily]

What state or country are you located in?

 

[arkansas_ash]

Hi,
When we moved here to north cental Arkansas in 1998, there were four plants on our hit list that we were on our property- Japanese Honeysuckle, Chinese Privet, Creeping Jenny, and what you have, Italian Arum. It took a while to identify Italian Arum, a plant that is super hardy, starts to put out leaves in October, grows through any hard winter, and in the summer after blooming, puts out red berries that are a skin irritant if handled. I found them listed in Sunset Western Garden Book. A. Italicum Arrow-shaped leaves, 8 in. long and wide, veined with white. Very short stem: whole or greenish white flowers in spring or early summer. Dense clusters of bright red fruit follow. These last long after the leaves have faded. Arum Italicum is a perennial with a tuberous root.
I've spent the past 18 years trying to get rid of the I. arum that are here and there on our property as they are invasive, planted by the original homeowner in the early 90's after this house was built.
Just dropping a discarded plant on the ground to get rid of it only gives it a new spot to grow. The seed fruit itself will sprout easily, but it is very difficult to dig up and remove the whole plant as it has a spindly stem that goes deep down to the tuber, and the stem easily breaks while trying to pull it up. This makes it almost impossible to find the little tuber that will eventually come up again in a couple of years time. If you leave any of the stem behiind and get the tuber, the stem sprouts. The leaves are somewhat thick and waxy, so herbicides do not kill it completely. Not to mention that because it is a tuber it can store its food and sprout another year or two down the road after you think you've killed it with glyphosphate (RoundUP) or 2-4D broad leaf weed killer. The best way we've found is to dig them up soon after they leaf up in the fall. We have sticks marking the spots of all known I. arum plants, so if we don't dig them up completely, we know where they are and can keep an eye out for them in the future.
If you like it, pot it up and enjoy it that way. I believe it is on the invasive species list along with the other plants I mentioned above.