Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe.

synonyms: foetid pothos, polecat weed, Symplocarpus foetidus.

Clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe.

synonym: Lysichiton americanum.