(n) deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe, Syn. foetid pothos, polecat weed, Symplocarpus foetidus
(n) clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe, Syn. Lysichiton americanum