Sentences with phrase «skunk cabbage»

Skunk cabbage is nature's early riser, always one of the first plants to emerge in spring, even when unusually cold conditions hold sway, as has been the case this year in the East.

A visitor to the grave of FDR did not find him doing 2000 RPM, but did note the skunk cabbage that someone helpfully planted there.

«Mr. Blabbermouth» is a vintage war short that discredits the loudmouth mis - informationer, who grows like «skunk cabbage,» and instills fear in the nation's home front.

Topical skunk cabbage ointment is thought to stimulate abrasions and ease pain.

In another plant group, the descriptively named tiny yellow skunk cabbage is also a carrion plant.

To give up on this distinction is to court the horticultural disaster that resulted when the hundred flowers of that New Age optimist Chairman Mao produced nothing but skunk cabbages and stinkweeds.

«Let a hundred flowers bloom if they can,» he continues, «even those that seem to me indubitably skunk cabbages and stinkweeds.»