Asarum canadense commonly known as Canada wild ginger Canadian snakeroot and broad-leaved asarabaccais is a herbaceous perennial native to deciduous forest in eastern North America from the Great Plains east to the Atlantic Coast and from southeastern Canada south to approximately the fall line in the southeastern United States.Underground shoots are shallow-growing fleshy rhizomes that branch to form a clump.
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binomial authority
Carl Linnaeus
class
Magnoliids
conservation status
G5
conservation status system
TNC
division
Flowering plant
family
Aristolochiaceae
genus
Asarum
kingdom
Plant
order
Piperales
synonym
A. acuminatum, A. canadense var. acuminatum, A. canadense var. ambiguum, A. canadense var. reflexum, A. reflexum, A. rubrocinctum
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