European wild ginger
Asarum europaeum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Aristolochiaceae
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. SiberiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, brownRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Old English
- Europisc wild gingifer
- Arabic
- ناردين بري
- Azerbaijani
- Avropa çobandüdüyü
- Bashkir
- Тайтояҡ
- Belarusian
- Падалешнік еўрапейскі
- Catalan
- Atzarí
- Czech
- kopytník evropský
- Welsh
- Carn-yr-ebol y gerddi
- Danish
- Almindelig Hasselurt, Hasselurt
- German
- Gewöhnliche Haselwurz
- Esperanto
- Azaro
- Spanish
- ásaro
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Asarum europaeum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.