skunk cabbage

Noun skunk cabbage has 2 senses

• skunk cabbage(n = noun.plant) foetid pothos, polecat weed, symplocarpus foetidus - deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe;
is a member of genus symplocarpus, symplocarpus
is a kind of bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant

• skunk cabbage(n = noun.plant) lysichiton americanum - clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe;
is a kind of bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant