Asarum arifolium (Little Brown Jugs)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Asarum arifolium, photographed by Siddarth Machado — fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203998715

Asarum arifolium, photographed by Sam Taylor — fig. b Sam Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199465166

Asarum arifolium, photographed by lejones417 — fig. c lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199444538

Asarum arifolium, photographed by Hill Craddock — fig. e Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195920240

Asarum arifolium, photographed by Laura Gaudette — fig. f Laura Gaudette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199145657

Asarum arifolium, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted — fig. g Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197386312

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Flowering n = 941 observations

250

501

154

Flowering observations of Asarum arifolium by month
Month	Observations
Jan	1
Feb	14
Mar	250
Apr	501
May	154
Jun	18
Jul	0
Aug	1
Sep	1
Oct	0
Nov	0
Dec	1

Peak flowering in Apr, from 941 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Asarum callifolium Small
Asarum ruthii Ashe
Heterotropa arifolia (Michx.) A.Gray
Hexastylis arifolia (Michx.) Small
Hexastylis arifolia var. callifolia (Small) H.L.Blomq.
Hexastylis arifolia var. ruthii (Ashe) H.L.Blomq.
Hexastylis callifolia Small
Hexastylis ruthii Small

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.