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Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Flowers–Minute, perfect, foetid; many scattered over a thick, rounded, fleshy spadix, and hidden within a swollen, shell-shaped, purplish-brown to greenish-yellow, usually mottled, spathe, close to the ground, that appears

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Witch-hazel

Witch-hazel

Hamamelis virginiana

Flowers–Yellow, fringy, clustered in the axils of branches. Calyx 4-parted; 4 very narrow curving petals about 3/4 in. long; 4 short stamens, also 4 that are scale-like; 2 styles. Stem: A

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