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Asarum rosei

Asarum rosei
Photo: Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0

Asarum rosei is a small perennial wild ginger from the mountains of western North Carolina, closely related to other woodland gingers. It is grown by woodland and native-plant gardeners who want a shade groundcover.

Family
Aristolochiaceae (Aristolochi family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist in the growing season and avoid drying out.
Soil
Humus-rich, moist, well-drained woodland soil with leaf litter.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate climates; protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. North Carolina
Climate
temperate

About

Asarum rosei is a species of flowering plant endemic to North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It was first formally described in 2017 by Brandon T. Sinn in Phytotaxa. The species is named for Mark Rose, "a respected plant collector, horticulturalist, orchid breeder, and naturalist who discovered and documented the species".

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Littlebrownjug · Mountain Heartleaf · French Broad Heartleaf · Largeflower Heartleaf · Dwarfflower heartleaf · Asarum sorriei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asarum rosei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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