Lysichiton americanum

Skunk cabbage. Wherever the leaves of this plant were available, they were used as "Indian wax paper," for lining berry baskets, berry-drying racks and steaming pits. Skunk cabbage was rarely used as food by the northwest coast peoples; it was mostly a famine food in early spring; and it was then eaten only after steaming or roasting.
Information from Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

These have always been a harbinger of Spring for me. These and turkey vultures. Odd? Maybe. But that's the way it is. ;-)
Rainy, windy miserable day today.

Edit here: I neglected to say why it's called skunk cabbage. It stinks!