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should I worry about asarum europeum?

21 years ago

I've noticed a few plants as much as thirty feet away from the original planting - maybe the ants carry the seeds? I don't abut any natural areas, just other yards. And I do have worse to contend with like Japanese honeysuckle and garlic mustard. anyone ever hear of the asarum actually becoming a problem?

(I did get a native asarum, but the travelling plants are the europeum)

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apcohrs
21 years ago
It's a gentle spreader (yes, by ants). It doesnt appear in the USDA Plants database as having ANY naturally occuring populations in the wild. I think you (and me) are safe.
waplummer
21 years ago
I am forever rogueing it out places where I don't want it. In fact just tonight I pulled sone out of between my patio stones.
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Treedoc66
21 years ago
I wish my Asarum shuttleworthii would spread in the same fashion....

Rx
jeff_al
21 years ago
it seems to be a very slow spreader down here. that could be due to the summer heat. my clump is about 4 years old and maybe 9" in diameter.
bhrost
21 years ago
You're probably correct assuming that ants help spread the seeds - I've got extensive areas of both the European and native gingers that have spread this way. Which predominates - in my situation the native ginger has the edge. The weakness of both species is somewhat of an intolerance for hot dry conditions. This fallibility probably helps keep the Euro Ginger from being invasive over the long haul. It probably couldn't colonize the tough sites invasives usually favor.
Elaine_NJ6
21 years ago
I think that what with norway maples and ailanthus taking over the woods, garlic mustard overpowering the understory, and loosetrife demonizing the swamps, a slow-growing nonnative groundcover is just not as big a worry.

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