Wild Ginger Plant. Asarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family aristolochiaceae, commonly known as wild ginger. Wild ginger wild ginger, also known as kahili ginger and ginger lily, is a weed in many parts of new zealand.
It makes a great ground cover plant for a shade garden. It is not related to the ginger plant popular in asian cooking. From louisiana and oklahoma to north dakota thence eastward to the atlantic coast, except florida.