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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.
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.
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 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 .
Clumpfoot cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus; Meadow cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus; Skunk cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus, Lysichiton spp. Swamp cabbage – Symplocarpus foetidus; California bay – Umbellularia californica; California buckeye – Aesculus californica; California sycamore – Platanus racemosa; California walnut ...
This is a list of genera in the plant family Araceae.As currently circumscribed, the family contains over 3700 species into approximately a hundred genera. The family's taxonomy remains in flux, and a full taxonomic treatment integrating the mass of phylogenetic data that has become available in the last 10 years remain to be produced.
Examples from this family include the dead-horse arum (Helicodiceros muscivorus), the eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), the elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), elephant ear (Philodendron selloum), lords-and-ladies (Arum maculatum), and voodoo lily (Typhonium venosum).
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.