Viburnum opulus var. americanum American cranberrybush is widespread in northern forests, wetlands, and thickets of North America. A tough, resilient shrub, it has three-lobed maple-like leaves. Flat clusters of white flowers appear in spring, each cluster containing both fertile and sterile flowers. The larger sterile flowers are entirely surrounded by smaller fertile flowers, a strategy for enticing pollinators. Bright red berries drape the branches in fall, and persist int

Asarum canadense Wild ginger is a ground-covering perennial native to eastern North America. It grows in shade forests and woodlands, where its rounded leaves can blanket the forest floor. Wild ginger has creeping rhizomes just under the soil surface and spreads through vegetative reproduction. The stems are short and grow from the rhizomes at ground level; the hairy, heart-shaped leaves are about four inches across. In spring, small maroon-brown flowers emerge from the leaf