Wild ginger / Canada snakeroot - Asarum canadense

This creeping ground cover with its heart-shaped leaves grows abundantly around here on forest floors. Tea made from its roots is pleasant, like a cross between ginger and black pepper. 
Old books like to claim this plant as medicinal. The FDA says it gives rats cancer and is bad for you. Oh, well. I'm sure something else is going to give me cancer first, like the sun or hot dogs or the solvents I work with. But I probably wouldn't make a habit of it. Although it tastes real nice.

-CH



Back to the front!