Height at Maturity:  4-5"

Width at Maturity:  48"+ in 5 years
Spacing:  24-36" for groundcover

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Maintenance / Care:  Low

Asarum caudatum , commonly known as Western Wild Ginger is an excellent and easy-to-grow native evergreen perennial groundcover plant with a misleading common name. It is not related to true ginger, Zingiber officinale, and though it's native to the Western U.S., it also thrives well in the Eastern U.S. It gets its common name due to its leaves and roots that, when crushed, smell like ginger. It grows to only 4 inches high and spreads by underground rhizomes that will form a patch about 4 to 5 feet in as many years, which makes it an excellent choice as a thick understory groundcover in partially to fully shaded woodland and landscape borders or home foundation plantings. Beautiful, heart-shaped, satiny, evergreen green leaves 4 to 6 inches wide grow in pairs on each node. In mid to late spring, there are very unusual three-petaled red flowers with long tail-like appendages at the ends of each petal that are sure to be a conversation piece. 

Growing 4 to 5 inches tall and spreading to form an evergreen carpet 4 or more feet wide, Western Wild Giinger is excellent as a groundcover in shady borders and home foundation plantings. It looks really nice around garden ponds and combines beautifully with ferns, hosta lilies, heuchera, and many other shade-loving plants. A fine addition to native plant gardens, woodland shade gardens, white theme gardens, and beneficial pollinator and butterfly gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  2 to 3 feet apart for groupings

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