The plant blooms early and looks bizarre enough to fit in with Addams Family home décor. But the coolest part? Skunk cabbages ...

While spring still feels like a ways away ... member that sends up stalks of flowers and is only a few inches tall. Wildlife officials encourage you to look out for these early bloomers on ...

A skunk cabbage bloom was found at ... For now, though, the plant can be identified by its greenish-white flowers on club-like spadix within a purple-spotted hood — pictured below.

The common name for this plant is “skunk cabbage.” It’s a perennial plant that grows in wetland areas and swamps. (I think it looks more like an alien species, if I believed in such things.) ...