Identify this plant

[Glock]

Grows on the ground in wet areas under heavy tree cover in Indiana.

 

[printcraft]

 

[bulletsmith]

 

[Glock]

Found it. Skunk Cabbage.

 

[Woobie]

Interesting. Never heard of it.

 

[One Shot One Kill]

Found it. Skunk Cabbage.

You are correct! It loves growing in low wet areas of woodlands. Smelly stuff, lives up to its name. Interesting fact: they generate heat and melt snows and ice and sprout earlier in the year then most plants.

 

[Woobie]

You are correct! It loves growing in low wet areas of woodlands. Smelly stuff, lives up to its name. Interesting fact: they generate heat and melt snows and ice and sprout earlier in the year then most plants.

That is very cool

 

[spencer rifle]

They also attract flies as pollinators, giving them a warmer place to spend the winter and attracting them with the appearance of old meat inside the flower. The smell doesn't hurt either. The flies spend part of the winter tracking pollen around the flowers.

 

[BogWalker]

Never heard of such a thing. I'll have to look for it sometime, but our land is only seasonally marshy in areas so I'm not sure if it would support the species.

 

[WebSnyper]

Ok, you have won the internet today... That was outstanding.