This post would have been more timely about a month ago, but here goes. The first actual growing plant in Vermont is skunk cabbage. It's listed in my Wildflowers of Vermont book, but that's a stretch, even for me. It is a remarkable plant, however. It starts to emerge out of the snow in March. It produces it's own heat from the hooded object in this photo (spathe). It is an honest to goodness, organic solar panel which melts the snow around it, and induces the flowers inside it to grow.
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