Climbing plant with tendrils. Leaves alternate with cordate bases, leaf highlighted in above photo was 6.5 cm wide and 8 cm long, not including petiole. Plants have stiff stems. Small green flowers in globose umbels growing from leaf axils. Umbels measured at 2.5 cm in diameter. Very short hairs on bottom of leaves, otherwise plant hairless.

Found in moist woodlands, and scrub, where they attach to and climb on nearby plants.

I detected only a very faint carrion-like odor from the flowers (disappointing!), this feature giving the plants their common name.

Budd's Flora lists the plant as growing to 1.5 m long, we measured plants to 106 cm tall.

Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan lists the plant as common, however I've only seen it in a couple of locations around Hudson Bay.

These photos were taken June 19th, in scrub along a railroad track, near Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, 400 km north-east of our home in Regina, SK.

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