| NOUN | plant | skunk cabbage, polecat weed, foetid pothos, 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 |
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| plant | skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum | clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe |
| Meaning | deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe. | |
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| Synonyms | polecat weed, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus | |
| Member of | Symplocarpus, genus Symplocarpus | One species |
| Broader | marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant | A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land |
| Meaning | clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe. | |
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| Synonym | Lysichiton americanum | |
| Broader | marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant | A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land |
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