Later in the year, skunk cabbage has broad, layered leaves that look like cabbage. This plant loses its leaves annually but can live up to 20 years. For what starts as a small hooded flower, skunk ...

Skunk cabbage produce yellow, knee-high flowers surrounded by a pallet of watermelon-sized green leaves. Native Americans had many uses for the skunk cabbage. In her epic work, “Ethnobotany of Western ...

This smell lures flies and beetles to the flowers, which aids in pollination. A fun fact about skunk cabbage is that it creates its own heat through cellular respiration and can melt snow and ice.

If you think the skunk cabbage’s speckled purple-and-green spathes are strange, check out the plant’s peculiar flowers, which are clustered on a spike, or spadix, inside those hoods.

Skunk cabbage is native to wetlands and marshy areas. Peeking out of the ground, you will first see a hood with a narrow opening on the side that tapers to a point. This outer part of the flower ...

Wildlife officials say skunk cabbage emits a skunky odor when the flowers are crushed.A fun fact about skunk cabbage is that it creates its own heat through cellular respiration and can melt snow ...

Cleome (skunk flower) adds old-fashioned interest to gardens. By MELODY PARKER, Jul 23, 2011 Jul 23, 2011 Updated Jul 23, 2011; 0; 1 of 2 Cleome. Courtesy Photo Facebook; Twitter ...

Spring is nearly here and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a rainbow of hues bursting from the ground, a magical show that the ...