skunkcabbage

skunkcabbage
skunk cabbage n.
1. An ill-smelling, eastern North American swamp plant (Symplocarpus foetidus) having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purplish spathe.
2. A western North American plant (Lysichitum americanum) having a bright yellow spathe with an inflated upper part.

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