Scientific Name
Symplocarpus foetidus

Common Name
Skunk cabbage
Life Cycle: Perennial


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Flower/fruit: Fleshy purple to reddish brown, spathe wraps around a heavy round spadix; tiny flowers grow on the spadix; foul, skunk-like odor  
Flowering Season: Early summer
Foliage: Large (1 to 2 feet) ovate to cordate leaves are ribbed, broad at the base; produced after flowering
Site: Bogs, swamps, wet meadows, very wet woods
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