Oscar68 - Aug 9, 2016 2:38 pm - Voted 7/10
Skunk Cabbageyou know...I never new that this was skunk cabbage....I have a picture somewhere in my photos..(pics)
nader - Aug 9, 2016 6:10 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Skunk CabbageA few years ago someone on Summitpost pointed that out to me on one of my other pictures that had skunk cabbage in it.
nartreb - Aug 9, 2016 9:34 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Skunk CabbageThis photo doesn't show skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), it shows Indian Poke (Veratrum viride).
nader - Aug 10, 2016 8:59 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Skunk CabbageI am by no means a botanist. You are using scientific names so I suppose you know what you are talking about but I googled "Skunk Cabbage Colorado" and I saw the plant shown in this picture. I googled "Indian Poke", a lot of pictures came up most of which did not look like what you see above.
nartreb - Aug 10, 2016 9:35 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Skunk CabbageGoogle image search will find plenty of incorrectly labeled photos.
Try looking up skunk cabbage and veratrum directly on a site like the USDA PLANTS database.
Skunk cabbage has very broad leaves and essentially no stem, making it look rather like cabbage (but without the tightly-wrapped "head"). The plants in your photo have stems about three feet tall, and less-broad leaves with ribs.
If you go back soon you will find that some of your plants have small greenish flowers at the top (with threefold symmetry - it's related to lilies). Skunk cabbage has foul-smelling large purple-brown flowers at the base (a large purplish sepal wrapped around a fat pale spike structure holding the actual flowers - it's related to arums), and blooms in early spring.
nader - Aug 10, 2016 10:46 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Skunk CabbageChanged to Indian Poke.
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