Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger pollinator-friendly purple-tinged florets

purple-tinged florets

deep wine-red blooms with an occasional white highlight flower in late spring and early summer

With plenty of water

'Puget Pink' makes a nice small shade tree

densely branched

Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger pollinator-friendly purple-tinged floretsThis rather recent and native Chinese arrival is a woodland groundcover ginger with large, dark green, evergreen, and deer resistant leaves. Asarum splendens is a vigorously rhizomatous species and makes a dense carpet of green and silver mottled hearts. In early spring the large, 2 inch, deeply cupped flowers of dark purple brown are a unique and exclamation eliciting bloom when discovered beneath the foliage. (Not culinary; called ginger for its