Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger Size:1 qt Rounded and mounded leaves are

Rounded and mounded leaves are covered with fine silver hairs making diamonds of rainwater

Merlot red blossoms form an umbel above a collar of cream bracts dipped in wine

forest margins

bright green almost fringed leaves held tightly to the branches

Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger Size:1 qt Rounded and mounded leaves areThis 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