Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is the first wildflower of the year in Mid-Michigan. This species is so insistent on blooming that it has the ability to melt through snow and ice! I often find this species blooming in seeps and swamps as early as the first week of March, but regardless of when I find it I know that spring will soon be here.
My first sighting of Skunk Cabbage for 2019 coincided with the Vernal Equinox - so for this year at least Skunk Cabbage truly was a sign of spring!
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