If natural heat is not available, you may need to add heat and a fan for continuous air flow. Wild ginger roots can be dried in the sun although if possible dry indoors in a well ventilated barn loft or attic to protect from the elements. It is not uncommon for wild ginger root to dry 10:1, meaning it could take as much as ten pounds of fresh root to make one pound of dry root. Wild Ginger root holds a great deal of moisture. Unless your buyer is purchasing fresh dug roots (which often they do) the clean roots need to be dried. Gather the larger more mature plants leaving plenty of younger smaller plants to seed the area for future harvest.Īfter harvest, the roots should be washed in cold water and all foreign matter (leaves, rocks, dirt and other roots) must be removed. Wild ginger root has a long skinny root system which grows fairly shallow to the ground surface and is often able to be harvested quickly by hand. Only the plant roots have medicinal properties and market value. Fall harvest will also allow the plants to seed. The roots produce a scent similar to the ginger.įor maximum potency Wild Ginger should be harvested in the late summer and fall. The flowers appear in spring and bloom through April. The flowers are small, maroon, unpleasantly scented, bell-shaped found in the leaf junction. It is a stem less plant with 2 heart-shaped to kidney-shaped, dark green, well veined, basal leaf. Wild ginger is native to the USA and is a spring wildflower which grows in rich woods and wooded slopes. Common Names: Canada Snakeroot, American wild ginger, serpentaria, asaro…
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