Asarum splendens

Showy Wild Ginger, also known as Chinese wild ginger, is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to the temperate forests of China. All parts of the plant have a long history of traditional Chinese medicine and have a spicy, aromatic, ginger-like flavor and aroma. Despite the similarities in fragrance, Western Wild Ginger is not related to true ginger, Zingiber officinale.

This low-growing plant only reaches six inches high and slowly spreads through creeping rhizomes to form an attractive groundcover. Plants have heart-shaped leaves, streaked and marbled with gray, that hang horizontally and make a lush carpet of cyclamen-like 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. Showy Wild Ginger prefers regular moisture and good shade. A must have plant for the woodland garden.

Plants related to Showy 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