NOUN
- perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
How To Use bloodroot In A Sentence
- Accent their upright stems with low plantings of foamflower, bloodroot, and barrenworts.
- Wildflowers like bloodroot, Trillium and Hepatica also bloom in late winter.
- Surf and turf Daytrip by boat to the 600-acre Indian Lake State Park, where you can jog the three-mile brushy Cherokee Trail past wildflowers like Dutchman's breeches and bloodroot.
- Anyone who's ever killed single-bloodroot seedlings by prying them out of a gravel driveway or murdered baby anchusas by hooking them out of cracks in concrete will understand why there's much to be said for an organized approach to seed-saving.
- Garlic mustard shares the same territory and season as bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, spring-beauty, wild ginger, hepaticas, toothworts, trilliums, and others that suffer at its hands - or roots.
- Other wildflowers are common Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, two kinds of golden bellworts, hepatica, wild columbine, monkshood, bloodroot, toothwort, and wild ginger.
- The area was called Bloodroot Valley because of the profusion of bloodroot flowers that blanketed the valley in the early spring.
- Another notable treat you will find in the park is a spectacular array of wild flowers like the trillium, bloodroot and liverwort.
- It competes with native wildflowers that also flower in the spring, like spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, hepatica, toothworts, and trilliums, stealing light, moisture, nutrients, soil and space.
- 'Here's the liverleaf, and anemone, and bloodroot; and we couldn't find the columbine, but it must be out. A Red Wallflower
