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Photograph by C. Ritchie Bell
Bloodroot
Sanguinaria canadensis Linnaeus
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A native of eastern and central North Camerica, Bloodroot is frequently
found in open mixed deciduous forests, chiefly of our mountains and
piedmont. Bloodroot is radily propagated by seed or rhizome sections for
the shade garden. Used historically in medicine and as a decorative skin
paint, the bright red, bitter alkaloid sanguinarine found in the rhizome
also has modern uses, but not that these rhizomes are highly poisonous.
Do not ingest!
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