wild ginger

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1830

Wild Ginger [is] a small perennial herbaceous plant, with a few broad kidney-shaped leaves on long footstalks and in pairs [Asarum canadense].

1947

She talked of . . . the virtues of the bark of swamp alder, of wild ginger for stomach-ache. . . .