NATURALLY SPEAKING: Skunk cabbage

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03
Apr

NATURALLY SPEAKING: Skunk cabbage


Skunk cabbage is one of the first plants to appear in Wisconsin. It is a resilient--and--smelly--specimen that can be seen poking through snow as soon as February. (Photo by Jerry Davis)

Soon to arrive, poking through crusted snow and ice is an early arum plant, sending leaves first and then, or at the same time, a flowering stalk (spadix).

 

 


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