asarum

Wild ginger (asarum) is also an article of considerable trade, as well as several kinds of snake root, pink root, puccoon, hellebore, lady's slipper, spikenard, Indian turnip, Indian hemp, and a hundred others.

A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State North Carolina Land Co. 1869

Plants Delight: Always the catalog with the most clever and timely covers, its pages are filled with unusual and cool perennials, with an emphasis on asarum, hardy ginger lilies, hellebores, hostas and ornamental grasses.

The Seattle Times 2010

Pipevines share the family Aristolochiaceae with the wild gingers (asarum).

SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

This gorgeous plant is from my shade garden in IL and is a European Ginger, asarum europaeum.

Fibermania 2009