Hitchiti Wild Ginger!

While at the Hitchiti Experimental Forest, we looked at wild ginger. Wild ginger is from the species Asarum. Its leaves are shaped like kidneys or hearts, and in the spring they have a purple hue! It gets its common name because it tastes and smells similiar to a ginger root, although it is not the same. Oddly enough, at the root of the plant one will find a small purplish/brown flower.