Re: [Native Gardening] Looks like violets but --

 

the native ginger is a good guess...the leaves are not shiny and the stems are more horizontal than vertical.  running up the front of the stem is a channel of sorts. so that the top portion which runs into the top of the leaf is squarish....but the rest of the stem (the back) is rounded.  i hope i described that well.   there is no discernible ginger smell though...does wild ginger have that?  i'm going to do a little research.   --- On Tue, 9/6/11, PatriciaC <pjclancy@yahoo.com> wrote: From: PatriciaC <pjclancy@yahoo.com> Subject: [Native Gardening] Looks like violets but -- To: nativegardening@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:04 PM   I think wild ginger is a good guess. Look at the stems. Are they rather thick? Do they grow in a generally horizontal direction? Wild ginger does bloom but the flowers are not visible unless you look underneath the leaves in the spring. They have maroon flowers, somewhat cup shaped, which are pollinated by ants or beetles. The native wild ginger has soft green leaves; there is a European variety with smooth, shiny leaves. --- In nativegardening@yahoogroups.com, Kathleen Domenig <kmdomenig@...> wrote: > > Could it be wild ginger (asarum canadense)? > > > Kathleen Domenig > State College, Pennsylvania > USA > > On Sep 3, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Jamie Warner wrote: > > > hi > > sorry to hijack this...but i have a plant that looks similar to yours, but also a lot like violets. they do not flower, though, and grow to be about 2-3 times the size of the violets in the rest of my yard which do flower. most of them seem to be about 3-4 inches wide (the leaves), some get as big as 5 or 6 inches wide. the violets in my yard which do bloom are only about 2-3 inches wide. > > > > i know that without a photo people may not be able to help me....but if you can just think of some plant names that I could google, perhaps I could find out what it is via process of elimination. > > > > a friend told me they were lilies, but lo and behold, no flowers. another website told me that they could be violets that were not getting enough sun...but still, they seem so big. > > > > thanks for any help you can provide. if it helps at all I live near wet woodlands. the plants are in a shady area of my yard under 2 verbanums (sp?) and a giant tree. > > > > thanks again > > -jamie > > > > >

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