Sanguinaria canadensis

Sanguinaria canadensis:
The Flower that Bleeds
Bloodroot grows in North America from Nova Scotia to Florida, throughout the Apallachian mountains & Great Lakes region, to Nebraska & East Texas.

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) fruit © Daniel Reed Mature plant with fruit. May, 2001 Big Frog Wilderness ...

Sanguinaria canadensis (Papaveraceae Papaveroideae) -- These members of the poppy family get their name from the juice they exude when broken, which is a bright orange to red color.

Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot)
15 (25)cm, Bloodroot is a herbaceous perennial with showy pure white flowers with a yellow center in early spring before the lobed leaves unfold. Native of moist woods throughout North America.

Sanguinaria Canadensis
Bloodroot
TOXIC - Do not ingest!
An early spring ephemeral. The flower bud, on a seperate stalk but completely enclosed by the developing leaf, pushes upward through the leaves as one of the first plants of spring.

Sanguinaria canadensis (L)
Synonyms: Red Indian paint, red root, tetterwort, red pucoon, paucon, coon root, snakebite, sweet slumber
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Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot) offers a real challenge. The challenge is not in growing the plant, as that is not difficult, but rather in seeing its enchanting white flowers before, with unseemly haste, the petals fall off.

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Part to full shade Zone 3
Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)
Part shade Zone 3 ...

Red Puccoon ( Sanguinaria canadensis )
Red Pygmy Japanese Maple ( Acer palmatum )
Red Queen Fuchsia ( Fuchsia ) ...

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Blue fescue (Festuca glauca)
Blue globe thistle, small globe thistle (Echinops ritro)
Blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
Blue lace flower (Trachymene coerulea, Didiscus coeruleus)
Blue water iris (Iris versicolor) ...

Bloodroot [English]: Sanguinaria canadensis
Bloodroot [English]: Sanguinaria canadensis var. multiplex
Bloodroot Lachnanthes Caroliniana [English]: Lachnanthes caroliniana
Bloodscale Sedge [English]: Cyperus sanguinolentus ...

Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex'
Sanguinary (Achillea millefolium 'New White')
Santa Barbara Ceanothus (Ceanothus impressus)
Santa Barbara Daisy (Erigeron karvinskianus)
Santa Lucia Fir (Abies bracteata) ...

Latin: Sanguinaria canadensis
My favorite flower is a moving target, but this week's favorite is bloodroot.

Genus Sanguinaria, America, Sanguinaria Canadensis, Family Papaveracea, Bloodwort, Flowering Plant
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Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot)
Thalictrum thalictroides (Rue Anemone)
Trillium erectum (Red Trillium/Wake Robin)
Trillium grandiflorum (Common/White Trillium/Wake Robin)
Trillium luteum (Yellow Trillium/Wake Robin) ...

Acer saccharum, Asimina triloba, Blephilia hirsuta, Carya cordiformis, Cystopteris fragilis protrusa, Dentaria laciniata, Eupatorium rugosum, Fagus grandifolia, Hydrophyullum appendiculatum, Hystrix patula, Quercus rubra, Sanguinaria canadensis, ...

A few examples of plants native to northeastern deciduous forests include wild ginger (Asarum canadense), Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra canadensis), toothworts (Dentaria sp.), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla).

(The lesser celandine is an unrelated plant of the buttercup family.) The orange-red sap of the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), an early spring wildflower of E North America, was used by Native Americans as a dye and skin stain.

Papaver orientale (Oriental Poppy)
Papaver rhoeas (Corn Poppy, Shirley Poppy)
Papaver somniferum (Opium Poppy)
Romneya coulteri (Coulter's Matilija Poppy)
Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot, Red Puccoon) ...

Sanguinaria del Canadá - Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria mayor - Polygonum aviculare
Sanguinaria menor - Paronychia argentea
Sanguino - Cornus sanguinea
Sanguino - Rhamnus alaternus
Sanguino - Rhamnus glandulosa
Sanicula macho - Sanicula europaea ...

See also: Bloodroot, May, Papaver, Phlox, Orange