Blood Root

Blood Root

This is an interesting plant which is the only species in the genus Sanguinaria.  It's common name is Blood Root and is named thus for the red sap which flows from a broken root.  AKA bloodwort, redwort and red puccoon, it is a perennial herbaceous plant blooming in early spring.  I know where to find many of them at Gorman but not nearly all.

Blood Root

 Interestingly, the span of time from the first picture and the second is less than a day.  I know this because I have returned to a plant the following day to change something I did only to have great difficulty finding it.  The reason?  The petals fall off in a short span of time.

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