Spring is nearly here and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a rainbow of hues bursting from the ground, a magical show that the woods ...

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 ...

THE SKUNK CABBAGE is a swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring. Named for its distinctive aroma, the skunk cabbage can produce knee-high yellow flowers surrounded by a pallet of watermelon-sized green ...

While spring still feels like a ways away, a sign of warmer weather is coming in the form of a stinky wildflower.Skunk cabbage, a native wildflower, is now blooming, with some being spotted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The groundhogs have had their say on when spring will arrive (though Buckeye Chuck and Punxsutawney Phil disagreed). Now it's time ...

I’ve given up on winter. It seems that nature around me has, too. This past rainy weekend, I ventured into a nearby marsh, wading through knee-high mud under cold, glowering skies that hinted of ...

Spring is a few weeks away and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a rainbow of hues bursting from the ground, a magical show that the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Spring has almost sprung. I know this not because the calendar says so, but because the fried-fish Lenten specials on Fridays at Kings Arms have returned. It’s not the melting ...

3) Skunk cabbages produce large amounts of heat through a form of respiration. This leads to a phenomenon I recall from my youth: the skunk cabbage spathes melt their way through the snow and are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is nearly here and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a ...