THE SKUNK CABBAGE is a swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring. Named for its distinctive aroma, the skunk cabbage can produce knee-high yellow flowers surrounded by a pallet of watermelon-sized green ...

I love the smell of skunk in early spring. That sulfur smell tells me that the snow is melting, the sun is rising higher into the sky, and soon a carpet of wildflowers will paint the forest floor in ...

I’ve given up on winter. It seems that nature around me has, too. This past rainy weekend, I ventured into a nearby marsh, wading through knee-high mud under cold, glowering skies that hinted of ...

Spring is nearly here and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a rainbow of hues bursting from the ground, a magical show that the woods ...

Whenever I go into the woods this time of year, I look for spring wildflowers to be in bloom. There are a large variety of plants that take advantage of the scanty leaf canopy of early spring to grow ...

Skunk cabbage has been used extensively as a medicinal plant by various Native American tribes (Photo by Judy Gallagher/CC BY-SA 3.0) Long Island life can be beautiful at any time of the year, ...

It looks like an alien or possibly something that would have been featured in the “Little Shop of Horrors” movie, but it’s not alien. In fact, it’s quite native and great fodder for the curious mind.

March Madness is the frenzied “madness” of athletic exuberance as different teams from across the country compete in a clash of collegiate contenders to see who will be crowned as champion. There are ...

Well before the last snowdrifts have receded, a mysterious plant is already emerging from its winter slumber. Skunk cabbage is a funky-looking, flowering wild perennial plant that is among the first ...

For us, March 20 marks the vernal equinox and the first day of spring. Other animals and plants pay no heed to the celebrated celestial event. Signs of spring in the natural world are evident far in ...

There are only two locations in Hamilton County where one of the earliest blooming wildflowers is known to grow, and just one where it grows naturally. It's called skunk cabbage and it begins pushing ...