Nice work! Everyone around here knows it as skunk cabbage, a type of false hellebore. I'm in the very northeast corner of OH. It grows in the woods and near ponds and will eventually get taller with white flowers at the top, just like the photos in Daisy's link. So because of your posts, I just went out and cut off a piece and it doesn't smell like skunk just from the cutting. Maybe one has to roll around in it to get a whiff?
