How can I get rid of skunk cabbage without killing everything else around it?

Part of our property is wetlands, and we are not looking to get rid of the plants in that area, just where we want to plant some grass. How can we get rid of it?
How can I get rid of skunk cabbage without killing everything else around it?
Selectively spray with Round Up.
Reply:Round up might be your only solution.



Skunk cabbage has now receded into the earth. A fully-grown skunk cabbage has a massive root system (figure 5). It's virtually impossible to dig a plant out of the ground. (I've tried.) A few inches into the ground the leaves grow out of the top of a thick roundish stem, called a rootstock or rhizome. Out of the rest of the rootstock the roots grow. Many roots, up to the thickness of a pencil, grow out of the rootstock in all directions. There is no taproot. The roots have virtually no branches until near their tips, where they ramify into many small, fibrous rootlets.