Skunk cabbage doesn’t have a ring-of-spring name. “Trillium” rolls off the tongue like white petals off the stem, and you can almost hear trilling in the cattails when you say “red-winged blackbirds.” ...

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 ...

Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidua), a perennial native, is a relative to Jack-in-the-Pulpit. It is one of the first plants to emerge in Pennsylvania each year. Skunk cabbage grows along streams, ...