How to Use wild ginger in a Sentence

wild ginger

noun
  • The flowers of all wild gingers grow close to the ground and are concealed by the foliage.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • There are endemic plants too, including a type of wild ginger found nowhere else in the world.
    — Johanna Read, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • This perennial, commonly known as wild ginger, prefers light to deep shade.
    — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 25 May 2022
  • Plants like sweetshrub and wild ginger invoke pleasant sense memories, and then – blech!
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Plant wild ginger in groups rather than specimens and a spot without competition from taller plants.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • Lily of the valley, foamflower, and wild ginger are easy to keep in shady gardens, while creeping thyme, creeping juniper, and sedums grow well in sun.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The considerable frozen section is a go-to for hard-to-source items like jute leaves, cha-om leaf shoots and krachai, a wild ginger root used in many Thai dishes.
    — Lauren McDowell, Chron, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The scientists began their research by surveying plants in the genus Asarum, commonly known as wild gingers.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
  • The wine is a delicious, non-smoky combination of scents and flavors of white peaches, lemon sorbet, laundry powder and wild ginger.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The Aloha blend, my favourite one, features wild ginger and is particularly delightful.
    — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The slopes have been planted with pineapples, but nature is also providing the ingredients for her next meal — wild ginger, edible ferns, turmeric, and pandan.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • If native ferns and wildflowers such as bloodroot, wild ginger, trillium, and foamflower thrive in your shade garden, conditions are probably good for ginseng.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2022
  • O’Keeffe created vivid works inspired by flora such as hibiscus, wild ginger, pink ornamental banana, sweeping ocean views, and lush landscapes.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The surrounding park is planted with 50 different species native to the area, including wild ginger, sumac, chokeberry, white cedar, lady fern, white pine and purple prairie clover.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • Even those which do favor carrion, fungus or rotting fruit serve as important pollinators for several of our native plants like pawpaw, wild ginger, and Jack-in-the-pulpit.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2022
  • The exotic flavor combination of mandarin orange, lemon curd, melon, wild ginger and graham crackers definitely put me in the holiday spirit.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The metal walkway with the eight-foot incline is flanked by warehouses and a floral arrangement of Allegheny serviceberry, eastern redbuds, wild ginger and magnolia trees.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • The aromatic stems of wild ginger, called tepus; baskets of juicy sago worm, known as ulat mulong; and bunches of twirling jungle fern, or midin, found in Kuching’s wet markets barely scratch the surface, said Mina Trang-Witte, 65.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Lovers of native flowers may already be familiar with some of the selections, including various trillium species, Virginia bluebell, wild ginger, cardinal flower, lobelia, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, blazing star and Allegheny spurge.
    — Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021

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