| Scientific Name: | Asarum canadense |
| Common Name: | Canadian wild ginger |
| Family Name: | Aristolochiaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Native planting, Perennial border, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Succulent, Lustrous, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Purple, Dark-red, Brown, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves arising from ginger-scented shallow rhizomes, shiny, kidney-shaped, most blades 3-10cm long x 5-15cm wide, petioles to 15-30cm long; flowers bell-like with three flared petal-like sepal lobes 3-8cm long, tan-purplish. | |