Cultivars vary in both flower and foliage color. Asarum canadense Canada Wild Ginger Forms foliage mass up to six inches tall, spreads rapidly via rhizomes. Excellent for partial to deep shade. May crowd out delicate plants. Large quantities of roots and rhizomes are poisonous.
Fragrant flowers are popular.
Trailing habit and roots readily into soil as it creeps along. Protect from winter winds. Scale can be a problem. Sweet Woodruff Delicate deciduous groundcover which forms uniform mat of bright green, persistent foliage. Small, white flowers.