| Scientific Name: | Asparagus officinalis |
| Common Name: | asparagus |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant, Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Bipinnate, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Green, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems smooth, glaucous; needle-like cladodes in clusters of 3-5, most 1-2cm long x <0.5mm wide, in the axils of alternately arranged tan coloured leaf scales; flowers greenish-white to yellowish, tublular-bell shaped, arising at nodes in spring, ~5mm long; berries on female plants round, red, 7-9mm wide, Aug-Sep. | |