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Subgenus Asarum
Asarum
Asarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as wild ginger.
16 branches of this group, most-observed first

Asarum canadense
complexAsarum canadense

Asarabacca
speciesAsarum europaeum

Western Wild Ginger
speciesAsarum caudatum

Hartweg's wild ginger
speciesAsarum hartwegii

Caudate Wildginger
speciesAsarum caudigerum

marbled wild-ginger
speciesAsarum marmoratum

Caucasian Asarum
speciesAsarum caucasicum

Lemmon's wild ginger
speciesAsarum lemmonii

green-flowered wild ginger
speciesAsarum wagneri

Caulescent Wildginger
speciesAsarum caulescens

Asarum pulchellum
speciesAsarum pulchellum

Asarum himalaicum
speciesAsarum himalaicum

Asarum cardiophyllum
speciesAsarum cardiophyllum

Asarum caudigerellum
speciesAsarum caudigerellum
Asarum cordifolium
speciesAsarum cordifolium
Asarum debile
speciesAsarum debile
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Plants
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.50

Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.81

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.133

Latin Herbal
1484 · p.41

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.42

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.71

Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.43

Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.39

Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.43

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.49

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.50

Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.41
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Asarum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1452659.