In bloom March 1 - April 7. This large leaf perennial herb is by far the earliest flowering plant on campus. It flowers so early that most observers miss the blossems. The leaves appear after flowering and resemble cabbage leaves. Early summer leafy plants are 6-30 inches tall.
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Botanical Description: Odiferous perennial, height to 150 cm. Large elliptical to lance-shaped leaves, net-veined, thin, tapering to short stout stalks up to 1.5 m long by .5 m wide. Numerous green-yellow flowers on thick fleshy spike, hooded by large bright-yellow bract.
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Symplocarpus foetidus Skunk Cabbage Range: Northeastern portion of U.S. Native to the U.S. Family: Araceae Rate of Growth: Medium Almost always found within wetland habitat. Active Growth Period: Spring Moisture Requirement: High Height at maturity: 2 feet Phytoremediation Potential: Unknown Sites
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Your first stop is near a swampy place. Poking up through the snow (if theres any left) youre likely to see a most unusual plant. If you can get close enough, take a sniff. Whew! Does this plant stink?
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Slide Show for album :: Skunk Cabbage Meadow Slide Show [Fullscreen applet] [Modern browsers] Compatible but limited Gallery: View all albums Album: Skunk Cabbage Meadow [stop] [play] [forward direction] [normal size] || Delay: 1 second 2 seconds 3 seconds 4 seconds 5 seconds 10 seconds 15
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Roy Rousseau's photos are printed to professional photographic papers and are also available as signed limited edition gicleé prints on request.
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Skunk cabbage is so named because of its foul, skunk-like odor. This plant is commonly found in swampy areas or in low-lying saturated soils adjacent to streams. Although cabbagelike in appearance when the fruit ripens in the autumn, skunk cabbage has no close relationship to the cabbage family.
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SKUNK CABBAGE is limited in Nova Scotia to Yarmouth, Shelburne, and Digby counties, where it favours boggy alder thickets and roadside ditches. Elsewhere in Nova Scotia, the climate is marginally too cold to support the plant.
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This area has many problems, including disturbance by ongoing and past land uses. A walk along this segment of Cascadilla Creek traverses a wide range of vegetation types: lawn, weedy former pasture, marsh, disturbed shrubland, and floodplain forest.
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Ethnobotany of the Iroquois with an Emphasis on the Seneca of the Upper Allegheny By Emily Porter Environmental Studies Capstone Project Fall 2007 University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Introduction The science of ethnobotany studies the way a group of people has used plants to fulfill their needs.
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The following table lists the genera (where several species are used in the same way) or species of wild and naturalized vascular plants that can be foraged in southeastern Ohio (principally in Athens County and the surrounding region) for food products. Rare species in the region, e.g.
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