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

But while most plants have attractive and alluring aromas, many species have evolved to do quite the opposite. Take the ...

The five are: skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetida), snow trillium (Trillium nobilis), hepatica (Hepatica nobilis), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and false rue anemone (Enemion bileratum).

Many gardeners are not comfortable calling plants by their scientific name. Perhaps it is the uncertainty of saying the name correctly, or perhaps just trying to get their tongue around the multiple ...

That plant is the Eastern Skunk Cabbage, scientific name Symplocarpus foetidus. Skunk cabbage usually prefers wet or damp areas, which have become plentiful now due to the winter snowmelt.

When to wet the block is another debatable point. A base of fatsia leaves, stapled phormium stems, pittosporum was completed with white chincherinchee, white phalenopsis, hellebore foetidus, ...

Between 1935 and 1945, he noted that Eastern phoebes would arrive back in southern Wisconsin about a week after the early-to-arise native Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) started ...

Just when we think we can’t take another day of winter weather, a variety of wildflowers are starting to grow. Called ephemerals, these are short-lived and can be found in moist areas near creeks.

In a heart-to-heart with the Hong Kong orchid tree, one could share anecdotes about the city’s endurance through the lens of this peculiar plant. Despite its hybrid nature and the urban ...