Wild ginger

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

Wild ginger is a hardy native plant that is perfect as a groundcover in a shady area or under a tree.

Wild ginger is not related to culinary ginger, but is beautiful and fragrant in some humus-rich soil ina shady spot like a woodland garden.

Find essential tips for growing lady’s mantle, a cottage garden favorite that works well as a groundcover.

Transform your shade garden with wild ginger. This beautiful groundcover thrives in shady spots, adding lush greenery to your landscape. Save this pin for later and click to explore how to grow wild ginger in your garden!

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

Western wild ginger (Asarum caudatum) is an understory plant that offers wonderful texture in the form of deeply veined, evergreen, aromatic leaves that carpet the soil in shady condition…

Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) may not be a plant you are too familiar with. It makes a great groundcover for shady areas.

Wild Ginger | Great ground cover and native Pennsylvania plant

Diervilla lonicera, Carex, and Wild Ginger are a great, low maintenance shady combination.

wild ginger asarum | Wild-ginger, Asarum canadense

Our trip to Pennsylvania last week coincided perfectly with the rhododendron and the primrose blooms, which were stunning, but I was equally impressed with the gingers. It's still early days out...

These hardworking perennials thrive in areas with dappled light to full shade and create a lovely woodland garden look

Asarum caudatum (wild ginger) #CAnativeplant

Making wild ginger syrup is a great way to incorporate this spicy, complex flavor into beverages, marinades, and desserts.

Common names can be tricky and our native “ginger” is no exception. These plants are in the genus Hexastylis if they are evergreen and Asarum if they are deciduous. Neither genus is related to the non-native edible "ginger" plant which is Zingiber officinale. Other common names for our native gingers include heartleaf and little brown jug, references to the shape of the leaves and to the shape of the flowers, respectively. Hexastylis shuttleworthii While four species of Hexastylis are found…

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