Golden Club
Orontium aquaticum. Arum Family.
Scape.--Slender; elongated. Leaves.--Long-stalked; oblong; floating. Flowers.--Small; yellow; crowded over the narrow spike or spadix. When we got to the bogs in May to hunt for the purple flower of the pitcher-plant we are likely to chance upon the well-named golden-club. This curious-looking club-shaped object, which is found along the borders of ponds, indicates its relationship to the Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and still more to the calla-lily, but unlike them its tiny flowers are shielded by no protecting spathe.
Kalm tells us in his "Travels," "that the Indians called the plant Taw-Kee, and used its dried seeds as food."