skunk cabbage

n 1: deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern

North America having minute flowers enclosed in a

mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe [syn: {polecat

weed}, {foetid pothos}, {Symplocarpus foetidus}]

2: clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western

North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having

a yellow spathe [syn: {Lysichiton americanum}]