The eastern skunk cabbage plant that we’ve been monitoring in our bog was just starting to leaf out seriously yesterday, as you see.
I suspect that it would have been much more advanced if we had not had such a cold and wet early spring. At times, much of the plant was under water.
Now that the vernal pools are starting to dry out, we suspect that the skunk cabbage will start to leaf out quickly. It likely will become surrounded by ferns and grasses as it is every year:
Leighton Archive Image
(Primary image taken in Brooklin, Maine, May 2, 2022.)