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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Araceae
Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) Salisb. ex W.P.C.Barton
skunk-cabbage
Symplocarpus: from symploce for "connection" and carpos for "fruit," referring to connection of ovaries into compound fruit
foetidus: evil-smelling
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, up to 3' tall forb with a skunk odor when crushed |
| Flower: | green, tiny, 4-parted, 4 stamens; inflorescence a roundish, 3"-6" long, mottled, green to purplish spadix shrouded by a pointed, broad, hood-like, purple spathe; blooms March-May |
| Fruit: | round cluster of brown-black berries |
| Leaf: | round, up to 1', simple, basal, appear after flowering |
| Habitat: | shade; wet; swamps, low ground |
| (Glossary) |
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