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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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Sneeze weed; Swamp Sunflower

Sneeze weed; Swamp Sunflower

Helenium autumnale

Flower-heads–Bright yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, numerous, borne on long peduncles in corymb-like clusters; the rays 3 to 5 cleft, and drooping around the yellow or yellowish-brown disk.

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Boneset; Common Thorough wort; Agueweed; Indian Sage

Boneset; Common Thorough wort; Agueweed; Indian Sage

Eupatorium perfoliatum

Flower-heads–Composite, the numerous, small, dull, white heads of tubular florets only, crowded in a scaly involucre and borne in spreading, flat-topped terminal cymes. Stem: Stout, tall,

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