skunk-cabbage

Yet I rarely failed to find, even in midwinter, some warm and springly swamp where the grass and the skunk-cabbage still put forth with perennial verdure, and some hardier bird occasionally awaited the return of spring.

Walden 2004

Of wild forms the sweet-flag (_Acorus_), Jack-in-the-pulpit (_Arisæma_) (Fig.  86, _A_, _D_), skunk-cabbage (_Symplocarpus_), and wild calla may be noted.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

I'd sooner smoke skunk-cabbage myself; 'twouldn't smell no worse and 'twould be a dum sight safer.

The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But, perhaps, there is only one creed by which you can be both at once -- the creed of the growing grass, and the blue sky and the running river, the creed of the dog-wood and the skunk-cabbage, the creed of the red-wing and the blue heron -- the creed of the great god Pan.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

They were stretched under the skunk-cabbage, not because they liked its rank smell, but because the winged ticks could not stand it at all and so left them in peace.

Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

On the bank behind was a great vigorous growth of golden green skunk-cabbage, that cast a dense shadow over the brown swamp tussocks.

Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Off in the ferns there beat a warning tattoo -- the loud whir of the snake's tail against a skunk-cabbage leaf.

Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

In the thick of the swamp I stopped a moment to examine the footprints of an otter at a shallow, shelving place along the bank, where, opening through the skunk-cabbage and Indian turnip, and covered almost ankle-deep with water, was the creature's runway.

Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

The whistle of a bird means spring; the poking through of the skunk-cabbage in low ground, the growing green mist upon the woods.

Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

It is singular that at a moment when the soil is generally frost-bound, any plant should find out that spring is at hand; but toward the close of February, or beginning of March, the skunk-cabbage makes a good guess at the time of the year, and comes up in marshy spots, on the banks of ponds and streams.

Rural Hours 1887