Wild ginger

Here is a list of great Mid-Atlantic native ground covers. These plants provide wildlife benefits while making your garden greener.

Found throughout the world, but primarily in the shady woods of Asia and North America, wild ginger is a perennial not related to the culinary ginger. Can you grow ginger plants in the wild? Read here to find out.

Wild Ginger has large heart-shaped leaves and a dense root system that work together to form a solid ground cover in the shade. An attractive red flower, often hidden from view by the foliage, blooms in early spring. Wild Ginger keeps …

Just about everyone knows what ginger looks like and that it's a tropical plant. Before modern international trade, fresh ginger was a real treat. Early colonists in the US found a tasty substitute that that

Ornamental wild ginger makes a good groundcover for woodland gardens and shady wildlife gardens.

Add these easy-growing native northeast plants to your garden for lots of low-maintenance color through the seasons.

AKA Canadian GingerWild ginger Seeds ,Other common names include Woodland Ginger, Ginger Root, Heart Snakeroot, Indian Ginger, Asarabaca, and Catfoot.Wild ginger is an easy to grow, vigorous groundcover for part fo full shade. It features beautiful, heart-shaped leaves. In the springtime, you’l...

Asarums, wild ginger plants, are small but exquisite, deer-resistant woodland perennials that thrive in moist but well-drained conditions with light shade.

Wild Ginger is cantharophilic, sometimes myophilic or sapromyophilic. If that’s all Greek to you it should be because it is Greek bastardized via Dead Latin into English. Canthrarophilic means pollinated by beetles, myophilic or sapromyophilic pollinated by flies. I suspect bees (melittophily) occasionally get in there as well. Wild Ginger grows close to the ground […]