Yellow Ginger

Description:

Description: The individual flowers emerge from between green bracts on the flower spikes. The flowers have 3 slender, linear, yellowish or greenish sepals and 3 spoon-shaped, yellow or cream petals. The 2 lower petals are opposite each other. There is yellow-orange at the base of the top, largest petal. The flowers wilt after one day. The pseudostems (formed by the leaf sheaths) emerge from underground rhizomes. The leaf blades are green, sessile, and oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate in shape.

Habitat:

Hillside along road at Lyon Arboretum.

Notes:

Introduced. This naturalized ornamental garden plant is native to the Himalayas In Hawaii, Yellow Ginger is an invasive weed in moist forests and open areas, and it is especially common along roadsides.