Skunk cabbage [filler]

From yesterday's hike on the Battle Road Trail. Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage or eastern skunk cabbage, is a low growing, foul-smelling plant that grows in wetlands of eastern North America.

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Symplocarpus_foetidus&rank=binomial

1 year ago (“A new-to-me butterfly!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2016-04-12
2 years ago (“‘Whirligigs’? What did you call these as a kid?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-04-12
3 years ago (“Sunny”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-04-12
4 years ago (“Purple heart”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-04-12
5 years ago (“Pink swirls in green”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-04-12
6 years ago (“What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-04-12

[ IMG_5385S12x9tm :: f/5 :: 1/100" :: ISO-200 :: 55mm ]

[Joanna kate]

It looks so interesting

[Thom Mitchell]

@joannakate Although I didn't include this in the description, what I have photographed are *flowers* not leaves! See photos here, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Symplocarpus_foetidus&rank=binomial

[Lisa Pouncy]

Very exotic looking xx