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 ...

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 ...

SKUNK cabbage is the unflattering name given to a very beautiful flower from North America. It produces large flowers that closely resemble the calla lily or arum lily, to which it is related, and if ...

For us, March 20 marks the vernal equinox and the first day of spring. Other animals and plants pay no heed to the celebrated celestial event. Signs of spring in the natural world are evident far in ...