Scientific Name
Symplocarpus foetidus
Common Name
Skunk cabbage
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
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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
Comments:
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