Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants Asarum splendens is a vigorous

Asarum splendens is a vigorous and superbly easy-to-grow Chinese wild ginger that makes a great evergreen groundcover for the woodland garden

This Southwest US native has round green leaves clothing the 5' tall woody stems

Keep it away from larger hostas that can shade it out

but is strangely absent from most American gardens

The flowers

Comptonia peregrina Wet Shade Plants Asarum splendens is a vigorousI am not a fern I am a shrub and a fragrant one at that! The common name, sweet fern, sums up its namesake well. Comptonia hails from Canada south to northern Georgia, where it is usually found on sandy dry soils in full sun as well as under an open canopy of sparse pine trees. The thick, fern like, green leaves are deliciously fragrant, as is common in its family, Myricaceae think wax myrtles. Comptonia peregrina spreads by short stolons, so don't