The Washington Post, January 22nd, 1993
IT MAY SEEM too early and too cold for wildflowers, but the fact is that the year's first wildflower and one of my favorites - skunk cabbage - is often in bloom as early as late January, determinedly pushing through snow and ice. I admit skunk cabbage is not a pleasant plant, and I must be one odd bird to announce it's a favorite. The name alone hints at its unpleasantness, and until a few years ago, I knew it as only a rank- smelling, large-leafed growth that stood vigil, with thousands of others, in swamps and marshes. And I knew it, too, as a plant with immense appeal to young boys, who ta...
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