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European Wild Ginger
Asarum europaeum
European Wild Ginger
Perennial herbaceous, evergreen plant up to 10 cm tall with a cord-like, creeping rhizome and creeping, rooting, branched stems, each of which bears two rounded kidney-shaped, dark green, leathery leaves on elongated petioles. The leaf blade resembles a hoof mark, hence its Russian name.
The flowers are drooping, bell-shaped, up to 0.8 cm in diameter, brown-green on the outside, dark red with a purple tint inside, with a pleasant aroma, located in the axils of the leaves. Blooms in April-May. The fruit is a hexagonal capsule with numerous seeds, equipped with a fleshy appendage. Spread by ants.
Location: shade-tolerant.
Soil: Prefer moist, lime-rich, loose soils.
Propagation: by sowing seeds, underground shoots and rooted parts of the stems. The best landing time is the end of summer. The best way to reproduce is by division.
Usage: as an ornamental leafy plant. This magnificent groundcover has only one drawback - slow growth. Claws are very hardy, and many of them do not shed their leaves for the winter, which fall only after severe frosts.
Partners: beautiful in spring next to snowdrops. Azarums are very good when planting curtains in shady places of rockeries. It is ideally combined with ferns, potted medicinal (Polygonatum officinalis) and other shade-loving species.
Perennial herbaceous, evergreen plant up to 10 cm tall with a cord-like, creeping rhizome and creeping, rooting, branched stems, each of which bears two rounded kidney-shaped, dark green, leathery leaves on elongated petioles. The leaf blade resembles a hoof mark, hence its Russian name.
The flowers are drooping, bell-shaped, up to 0.8 cm in diameter, brown-green on the outside, dark red with a purple tint inside, with a pleasant aroma, located in the axils of the leaves. Blooms in April-May. The fruit is a hexagonal capsule with numerous seeds, equipped with a fleshy appendage. Spread by ants.
Location: shade-tolerant.
Soil: Prefer moist, lime-rich, loose soils.
Propagation: by sowing seeds, underground shoots and rooted parts of the stems. The best landing time is the end of summer. The best way to reproduce is by division.
Usage: as an ornamental leafy plant. This magnificent groundcover has only one drawback - slow growth. Claws are very hardy, and many of them do not shed their leaves for the winter, which fall only after severe frosts.
Partners: beautiful in spring next to snowdrops. Azarums are very good when planting curtains in shady places of rockeries. It is ideally combined with ferns, potted medicinal (Polygonatum officinalis) and other shade-loving species.
Eng.: European Wild Ginger. Suom.: Taponlehti. Sven.: Europeisk hasselört.
