Skunk cabbage is the first native wildflower to emerge in Chicago’s woodlands in spring. Other ephemerals will follow, ...

The differences between the two are further obfuscated by skunk cabbage being sometimes referred to as swamp cabbage. Yet despite the naming complication, when you dive into the specifics of each ...

These are attractive and rather widespread, but they are preceded, often before winter is over, by a species that nobody would call delicate or beautiful. The name suggests nothing of the kind: skunk ...

Skunk cabbage doesn’t have a ring-of-spring name. “Trillium” rolls off the tongue like white petals off the stem, and you can almost hear trilling in the cattails when you say “red-winged ...

Lystichon americanus- the skunk cabbage By Jess Carey Long ago, before there were salmon, the people of the Pacific Northwest coast had only leaves and roots to eat. Finally, the first salmon swam ...