skunk cabbage

Noun

• clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe

• deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Lysichiton americanum , polecat weed , foetid pothos , Symplocarpus foetidus