skunk cabbage

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skunk cabbage Definition

• (n) deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
• (n) clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe

skunk cabbage Synonyms

• foetid pothos
• Lysichiton americanum
• polecat weed
• skunk cabbage
• Symplocarpus foetidus