Vine's Flora Friday: Wild Ginger

Wild ginger is a plant not often known, but one you might find in your backyard. It grows in shady wooded areas in Eastern North America, and is cultivated in many other localities.

Wild ginger grows close to the ground with glossy, heart shaped leaves. It grows low to the earth because it is pollinated by ants. At various times of the year, the plant bears a single deep purple flower with three lobes.