Violet Wood-sorrel
Oxalis violacea
Flowers–Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containing from 3 to 12 flowers. Calyx of 5 obtuse
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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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Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane
Cimicifuga racemosa
Flowers–Foetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to
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White or True Wood-sorrel; Alleluia
Oxalis acetosella
Flowers–White or delicate pink, veined with deep pink, about 1/2 in. long. Five sepals; 5 spreading petals rounded at tips; 10 stamens, 5 longer, 5 shorter, all anther-bearing;
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Indian Turnip
Arisaema triphyllum
Flowers–Minute, greenish yellow, clustered on the lower part of a smooth, club-shaped, slender spadix within a green and maroon or whitish-striped spathe that curves in a broad-pointed flap above it.
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