I’ve given up on winter. It seems that nature around me has, too. This past rainy weekend, I ventured into a nearby marsh, wading through knee-high mud under cold, glowering skies that hinted of ...

For those slogging through one of the harshest winters in recent memory, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The first wildflower of the year is already blooming — even if it is still covered in ...

One of the earliest plants to arise in the spring is now poking its shoot out of the ground: the Eastern skunk cabbage [Lysichiton camtschatcense]. Skunk cabbage is an herbaceous perennial plant that ...

Eastern skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, gets its name from its distinctive skunklike scent, but that is not its only interesting feature. Eastern skunk cabbage often flowers while there is still ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — What a difference a month can make. In March, we paid a visit to a little patch of bogland in York County. The reason? Skunk cabbage was sprouting. These plants, which thrive ...

Skunk cabbage has been used extensively as a medicinal plant by various Native American tribes (Photo by Judy Gallagher/CC BY-SA 3.0) Long Island life can be beautiful at any time of the year, ...