Asarum canadense - WILD GINGER

Also called Canadian Wild Ginger, this plant is a quite common native ground-covering perennial. It's a deciduous plant, so the leaves disappear in the late fall and emerge again in early spring, but this doesn't change its highly competitive ground covering habit.

The flowers are insignificant, brown-red and usually hidden under the leaves. They attract flies or beetles, which are the pollinators, and ants eat the fleshy part of the seeds and help spread the wild ginger to new locations.

Tolerates some shorter-term drought, but also wet soils. Black walnut tolerant perennial.

Nice sprouting with swirled heart-shape leaves, very good groundcover for shady bed, edges, woodland gardens, woodland edges or naturalization.

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Blooming Time: April/May
Size: 0.5' tall x 1.5 wide, slowly spreads into wide clumps
USDA Zones: 4 to 8
Culture: average or drained soils in full to half shade, appreciates some leafy mulch
Moisture Needs: medium to moist
Origin: Eastern North America (see USDA distribution map)
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: flies and beetles, ants
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: 3.5" x 5" deep perennial pot