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Birthwort Family

Asarum minus

Also called Dutchman's Pipe Family, Birthworts, Birthwort And Pipevine Family

Birthwort Family
Photo: Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Aristolochiaceae (Aristolochi family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Virginia to South Carolina
Climate
temperate

About

Asarum minus, the little heartleaf or little brown jug, is a species of flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae family. It is native to the southeast United States.

Where it grows

Asarum minus is endemic to the piedmont region, coastal plains, and mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Other Asarum plants

Wild Ginger · Asarum asperum · Canadian wildginger · British Columbia wildginger · Asarum crispulatum · European wild ginger · Hartweg's wildginger · Lemmon's wildginger · Marbled wildginger · Wild ginger · Asarum monodoriflorum · Wild Ginger

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asarum minus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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