Lysichiton americanus -- skunk cabbage
Growing with cattails, birch, alder in boggy peat lowlands. On soft edge of a northwest tawny grammar.
Pacific north west swamp wetland perennial with a strong musky fragrance with affinity for lungs, oxygenation, breathing difficulty due to acute or chronic compromise. Lysichiton americanus -- skunk cabbage
Growing with cattails, birch, alder in boggy peat lowlands.
Lysichiton americanus -- skunk cabbage diaries, 2.may.2021 normally can't walk in these swampy but an unprecedented drought has everything crunchy up this way. One of my dad's favorite sayings, the kind of thing you say when you're shade tree mechanicin' and you drop your 7/16 inch socket, or your in an extended allman brothers whipping post and somebody adds that major 7th or your chickens get eaten up by a bobcat, "cherry pie! unsustainable growth unsustainable culture." so guess we'll see who sticks around and sees this one out. Lysichiton americanus -- skunk cabbage
