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When complete, this garden will include a woodland, a pond and a prairie, three ecosystems that traditionally were managed for harvesting berries, woodland herbs, cedar, sweet grass, skunk cabbage and other culturally significant plants.

April to early May is the earliest you might expect to see skunk cabbage, coltsfoot and trillium blooming around Longmire, in the Mount Rainier National Park’s southwest corner.

Our forest floors should be carpeted with Virginia bluebells, trillium, skunk cabbage, jewelweed, ferns, spring beauty, trout lily, columbine and more.

Here with dry feet can be enjoyed the juicy wetlands with one of spring’s earliest delights: the first sign of swamp lantern, the skunk cabbage that provides an early feast for pollinators.

In the spring, she organized expeditions to collect frogs and skunk cabbages for the lab.”