Asarum caudatum

Western Wild Ginger, also known as long-tailed wild ginger, is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to the temperate forests of western North America. The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest traditionally used this plant for its edible tubers, which have a spicy, aromatic, ginger-like flavor. Despite the similarities in fragrance, Western Wild Ginger is not related to true ginger, Zingiber officinale.

This ground-covering plant only grows to six inches high and slowly spreads through creeping rhizomes to form an attractive groundcover. Plants have heart-shaped leaves, that hang horizontally and make a lush carpet of dark green foliage. If you’re mulching or weeding the garden, you might be lucky enough to find the flowers, which grow low on the plants and are burgundy with long, wispy tails. Western Wild Ginger prefers regular moisture and good shade. A must have plant for the woodland garden.

Plants related to Western Wild Ginger may be mildly toxic, so we don’t endorse consuming these plants regularly.

Cold hardy to zone 6a and above, or to -10 degrees Fahrenheit.

For sale are one gallon potted plants