Stinging Nettles Family: Plants having tiny green flowers without petals arranged in thin, stringy clusters. Toothed leaves are opposite. Plants are covered with stinging hairs!
American Skunk Cabbage, Skunk-cabbage, Yellow Skunk Cabbage: Lysichiton americanus (Synonym: Lysichitum americanum): Plants having a large, yellow leaf that surrounds a yellow spike of tiny flowers. Basal leaves very large. Plants have a sulfur odor when in bloom!
Amaranth and Goosefoot Family: Native herbs and shrubs to weedy plants having tiny green, non-petaled flowers in thick spike-like clusters. Leaves often have a white, scruffy appearance.