Symplocarpus foetidus
English: Skunk Cabbage; Skunk weed, Eastern Skunk Cabbage, Clumpfoot Cabbage, Foetid Pothos, Pothos foetidus, Meadow Cabbage, Polecat Weed, Swamp Cabbage.
Synonym: Dracontium, Dracontium foetidum.
Region: United States, Canada, eastern Asia.
Content: calcium oxalate.
Botany:
Herb; pungent, foul odour like rotting meat, apples, turnips and garlic; produces heat to melt snow in spring.
Roots: contractile, pulling the stem deeper into the mud, growing downward.
Leaves: large; foul odor when crushed.
Pollination: scavenging flies, stoneflies, bees; thermogenesis;