Symplocarpus foetidus


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Noun1.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 spatheSymplocarpus 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
foetid pothos, polecat weed, skunk cabbage
genus Symplocarpus, Symplocarpus - one species: skunk cabbage
bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
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Caption: Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is one of the earliest plants to emerge in spring.
Phenology: tracking the natural events occurring all around us
Roedd adar yn gwibio heibio ac roedd y fresychen ddrewllyd, Symplocarpus foetidus, y skunk cabbage yn tyfu wrth ochr y llyn.
Rhyfeddodau'r Gwyllt ym Mhortmeirion; BYD NATUR
Surface micro/nanotopography, wetting properties and the potential for biomimetic icephobicity of skunk cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus. Soft Matter, 10, 7797-7803.
Wettability and morphology of the leaf surface in cashew tree from the Amazon, Northern Brazil/Molhabilidade e morfologia da superficie da folha em cajueiro da amazonia na Regiao Norte do Brasil
In the shaded seep, of the 19 species in the plots (n = 30), Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) was dominant with a mean cover of 39.75% and an IV of 70.2.
Seep community at White Oak Creek Woods Natural Area, Mason County, Illinois
alba (meadow-sweet) * -- -- -- Stachys aspera (hyssop hedge nettle) * -- -- -- Stachys tenuifolia (common hedge -- -- -- nettle) * Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) * -- -- -- Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion) -- 2.5 -- Thalictrum thalictroides -- -- -- (rue anemone) * Thlaspi arvense (field pennycress) -- -- -- Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy) * 15.0 15.0 2.5 Tragopogon dubius (yellow salsify) -- 2.5 2.5 Trifolium pratense (red clover) -- -- 2.5 Trifolium repens (white clover) -- -- -- Typha latifotia (broad-leaf cattail) * 2.5 -- -- Urtica dioica var.
Vascular flora of the King Road Landfill in Northwest Ohio
The eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) in North America and Asia also keeps warm, independent of air temperature, Roger Knutson reported in 1974.
Warm-blooded plants? Ok, there's no blood, but they do make their own heat
quinaria is restricted to the decaying fruits and leaves of skunk cabbages, Symplocarpus foetidus (Jaenike 1978; Lacy 1984).
Habitat continuity and the genetic structure of Drosophila populations
acuta, Sedum ternatum, and Symplocarpus foetidus, have a C = 8, and only 12 species have a C = 7.
The vascular flora and vegetational communities of Munsee Woods Nature Preserve, Delaware County, Indiana
Another native species found here, skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), is also native to eastern China.
Searching for green in Gotham: the Big Apple affords wonderful opportunities to study changes in biodiversity through time
Rhizosphere NA of 3 previously unstudied plants (Acorus americanus, Decodon verticillatus and Symplocarpus foetidus) are given.
Associative rhizosphere nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) among plants from Ohio peatlands

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