There are over 70 species of deciduous and evergreen rapidly growing, low rhizomatous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in woodlands in Europe, Eastern Asia, and North America. \u00a0They produce large, usually glossy, sometimes marbled leaves. Under the leaves kidney or heart shaped dull brownish or purplish flowers that open at the mouth into 3 sharply arched or bent sharply back sepals. \u00a0The rhizomes are aromatic somewhat like ginger. \u00a0They\u2019re better known for their traditional medicine. \u00a0A great plant to use as a groundcover or in a woodland garden.<\/p>\n
Grow in partial to full shade in moderately fertile, humus rich, moist but well drained, preferably neutral to acidic soil. \u00a0Divide in early spring every few years.<\/p>\n
Prone to slugs and snails, leaf gulls,<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and rust.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Asarum europaeum <\/b><\/strong>var. caucasicum <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 European Wild Ginger \u2013 Asarabacca<\/b><\/strong> \u2013 This western European evergreen perennial species grows to 3\u201d tall and spread to 12\u201d or more wide. \u00a0This creeping hairy rhizomatous, carpet forming plant produces leaves that are kidney to circular with tapered and elongated leaf tips, glossy dark green leaves 2-3\u201d long and 2\u201d wide. \u00a0In late spring it bears small greenish purple, bell shaped, short lobed, flowers up to \u00be\u201d long turn brown. \u00a0Formerly used medicinally and as ingredient in snuff powders but is moderately toxic.<\/p>\n Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asarum \u2013 Heterotropa \u2013 Hexastylis \u2013 Wild Ginger There are over 70 species of deciduous and evergreen rapidly growing, low rhizomatous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in woodlands in Europe, Eastern Asia, and North America. \u00a0They produce large, usually glossy, sometimes marbled leaves. Under the leaves kidney or heart shaped dull brownish or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[42,33,64,41,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251876"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}