Skunk cabbage

Skunk cabbage is a native plant, actually two native plants that grow in marshes, bogs and shallow streams. Both emit an odor that smells a lot like skunk which is how they got their name.

Photo about Bright yellow blossoms of Skunk Cabbage growing in a swampy marsh. Image of cabbage, yellow, british - 24188702

Despite the crappy weather I got out briefly with my new camera today. There's an area on my way to work with a ton of skunk cabbage blooming that I've had my eyes on for the last week or so. It's really swampy and I didn't get far. I'll be back with either rubber boots or a full wetsuit, which would look ridiculous. The skunk cabbage stinks, my new camera (a used Canon 5D Mark II) doesn't. Manual focusing using live view is nice!

Skunk Cabbage, Swamp Lantern (Lysichiton americanus), Pacific northwest native perennial

Wildlife photographer and naturalist, Stan Tekiela, introduces us to the Eastern Skunk Cabbage, a cool and unsung hero in the plant world.

"Skunk Cabbage" is a member of the aroid family, and is native to the north eastern United States, and eastern Canada. It is one of the first of our native wildflowers to bloom in late winter and early spring, producing a curious hooded inflorescence, which is cryptically colored to blend in with the leaf litter. This species usually grows in wetlands under deciduous woods - the plants seen here growing in a soil with a high humus content - practically black muck. Like some other members of…

Rat-Eating Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii)

Lysichiton americanus

Recently, someone posted on Foragers Unite (1) that they had eaten Skunk Cabbage; and I thought, ‘Ewe, for real?’ Then, laughed at myself, thinking, if only I had a nickel for every ti…