Wild ginger, Asarum canadense, is a low-growing deciduous plant native to the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. Prized for its lush foliage and shade tolerance, wild ginger is an ideal ...

Why it’s choice: Native wild ginger is an elegant ground cover with bold, deep-green, heart-shaped leaves. But you get more than good looks from this plant’s foliage. Check under the leaves in ...

Alternatively, try virgin's bower, or Clematis virginiana, which produces masses of white blooms during spring, as can be ...

A wonderful group of plants called gingers thrive in the heat and delight us with bold foliage and attractive flowers.

But the real treasure of wild ginger plants is secreted away under those verdant hearts. The flowers of wild ginger always strike me as about as peculiar and alien as any plant I can imagine, but ...

Looking for a plant to help you fill those tough to manage spots in the drier and shadier parts of the garden? Here are three ...

Pinecone ginger is native principally to India and Malaysia. While pinecone ginger is used strictly as an ornamental plant in North Florida, it has a variety of uses in other cultures ranging from ...

American Indians, Dr. Enrique Salmón points out, have had 40,000 years to explore and experiment with our native North American flora. By contrast, European-descended botanists have been studying ...