Wild ginger (Asarum spp.) is a low-growing plant native to moist, shady environments. This stemless beauty displays dark green, heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves with prominent veining. Its unique ...

Wild ginger serves as an attractive ground cover, but if you're planting it for culinary use, beware of this one significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dense patch of wild ginger used as ground cover under trees in a residential garden. - Gabriela Beres/Shutterstock When it comes ...

The greening of the forests is upon us now and soon we'll be seeing a full canopy among the trees. Looking through the open woods as we were able to do for the last seven months is about to end. New ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. When choosing a new plant, many gardeners may be familiar ...

Early spring wildflowers, those fleeting stars of woodland walks, can be petite and demure with blooms that may nod or tuck beneath leaves. Few rank as challenging to see — or as peculiar in ...

What: Asarum splendens is commonly called splendid wild ginger. The plant is aptly named, for it is indeed splendid. Emerging in spring, its leaves are large, lustrous dark green overlaid with silver ...

A wild ginger has a clever trick up its sleeve to lure in pollinators. No, it's not a sweet fragrance that fills the air, but the foul stench of rotting flesh and dung. To attract carrion-loving flies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A patch of wild ginger grows beside a path. - Gabriela Beres/Shutterstock Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) is an increasingly ...