One strange marsh plant can keep itself near room temperature even in freezing weather. Here’s the biology behind its ...

THERE IS NOTHING more beautiful than a swamp full of skunk cabbage in the snow. The appearance of these bright yellow flowers in a frozen field of white tells us winter might not be over, but spring ...

Skunk cabbage is one of the very few plants capable of thermogenesis — of creating heat. Credit: Photo by Dr. Craig Bowron The calendar says we’re officially into spring, but below-average temps have ...

(WJW) – Spring is in the air — and it stinks! The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently shared on social media that, Skunk Cabbage, the state’s first wildflower to bloom each spring has ...

I love the smell of skunk in early spring. That sulfur smell tells me that the snow is melting, the sun is rising higher into the sky, and soon a carpet of wildflowers will paint the forest floor in ...

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 ...

Most of us think of pansies, violas, dianthus, snapdragons and petunias to decorate our fall-through-early-spring landscape. Another nice addition to cool-season flower beds is ornamental types of ...

THERE IS NO flower more beautiful than the skunk cabbage — unless it is the skunk cabbage in the snow. This swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring is the first flower to emerge from our dismal winter. A ...