Asarum canadenseL.

Canadian wild ginger

WFO wfo-0000550779 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Asarum canadense, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202806267
Asarum canadense, photographed by John Baur
fig. b John Baur, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197777645
Asarum canadense, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196372200
Asarum canadense, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. d Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197392475
Asarum canadense, photographed by Marilynn Miller
fig. e Marilynn Miller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195716261
Asarum canadense, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196359018
Asarum canadense, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196062718
Asarum canadense, photographed by Steph Pereira
fig. h Steph Pereira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197680389

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,901 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,901 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Asarum canadense f. canadense
  • Asarum canadense f. phelpsiae Fernald
  • Asarum canadense f. prattii Fassett
  • Asarum canadense var. acutifolium Raf.
  • Asarum canadense var. canadense
  • Asarum canadense var. macrophyllum Raf.
  • Asarum canadense var. obtusum Muhl.
  • Asarum canadense var. pumilum Raf.
  • Asarum carolinianum Walter
  • Asarum furcatum Raf.
  • Asarum latifolium Salisb.
  • Asarum medium Raf.
  • Asarum parvifolium Raf.
  • Asarum villosum Muhl. ex Duch.
  • Asarum ypsilantense Walpole

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.