1. Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
   "Early spring hikers often encounter polecat weed in wet areas";
   - skunk cabbage, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus

Derived forms: polecat weeds

Type of: bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant

Part of: genus Symplocarpus, Symplocarpus

Encyclopedia: Polecat weed