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Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage [5] or eastern skunk cabbage (also swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, or meadow cabbage, foetid pothos or polecat weed), is a low-growing plant that grows in wetlands and moist hill slopes of eastern North America.
The bloom of the eastern skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, in the spring, before leafing. Skunk cabbage is a common name for several plants and may refer to: the genus Lysichiton. Asian skunk cabbage, Lysichiton camtschatcensis, grows in eastern Asia; Western skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanus, grows in western North America
Symplocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to United States, Canada and eastern Asia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus is characterized by having large leaves and deep root systems with contractile roots used for changing the plant's level with the ground.
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) is a common eastern North American species. An interesting peculiarity is that this family includes the largest unbranched inflorescence, that of the titan arum , [ 20 ] often erroneously called the "largest flower", and the smallest flowering plant and smallest fruit, in the duckweed , Wolffia .
Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris)Cabbage – Brassica oleracea Clumpfoot cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus Meadow cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus Skunk cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus, Lysichiton spp.
Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) Nutt. – Eastern Skunk Cabbage [10] Commelinaceae - (Spiderwort Family) Commelina communis L. - Asiatic Dayflower [10] Tradescantia virginiana L. - Spiderwort [10] Dioscoreaceae - (Yam Family) Dioscorea villosa L. - Wild yam [11] Iridaceae - (Iris Family) Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill. - Stout Blue-eyed Grass [9]
Lysichiton americanus, also called western skunk cabbage (US), yellow skunk cabbage (UK), [2] American skunk-cabbage (Britain and Ireland) [3] or swamp lantern, [4] is a plant found in swamps and wet woods, along streams and in other wet areas of the Pacific Northwest, where it is one of the few native species in the arum family.
Symplocarpus foetidus, 'skunk cabbage,' young, unfurled leaves edible after drying and boiling. Tilia americana, basswood, first spring leaves and flowers are edible. Typha latifolia, 'cattail,' young shoots and inner pith of stems, otherwise too fibrous. Ulva compressa, 'sea lettuce,' edible type of green algae.