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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Three Spring Beauties
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-10 13:24:19
	Description:		In this episode of Field Notes, Susan Knight gives us three reasons to look forward to spring. I am a huge fan of winter. But once the snow is clearly on its way out, who doesn’t start thinking about spring? And what says spring better than … skunk cabbage? Actually, there are three plants that come to mind when I think of early spring. Unlike those poor birders who have to wake up at the crack of dawn and contend with hordes of warblers descending on them within a two-week period, botanists can sleep in and visit plants that cordially wait their turn and hang around all day. I know better than to give plants human attributes, but the group I’m thinking of does suggest certain personalities, of say, a trio of sisters emerging like debutantes at their coming-out ball. The first of the sisters to arrive in spring is skunk cabbage. This is the ugly sister, making up for her unattractiveness with some remarkable talents. Skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus is found in wet woods and along
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