Most skunk cabbage plants in the bogs have shed their colorful, jester-hatted spathes and are sprouting what will become their glorious leaves. As you see here, some of these plants’ leaves are still twirled tightly like rockets on the launch pad:
Others are beginning to fling their leaves open, causing a series of green explosions in the wetlands:
Skunk Cabbage is a paradoxical plant – gorgeously pleasing to the eye, not so much to the nose. (Imagine Grace Kelly or George Clooney with very bad breath.) Nonetheless, I’m a big fan of theirs. (Images taken May 9, 2026.)