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
- This is an understory herb -- this particular one is called bloodroot," he says. NPR Topics: News
- Harvest herb roots including bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and golden seal in the fall, after the foliage fades.
- 'Just some anemones, and liverleaf, and bloodroot, and maple blossoms, papa; but Christopher calls them all sorts of big names.' A Red Wallflower
- Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as Studies of Trees
- Last night I closed the door to the smokehouse where the bloodroot is kept in cardboard boxes, away from the mice and bugs. Excerpt: Bloodroot by Amy Greene
- Join us on this special adventure exploring The Little Grand Canyon for nature's spring gems such as bloodroot, spring beauty, and trillium. Battlecreekenquirer.com -
- The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming. Advice and News
- I can name sunflower and dandelion and bloodroot and trillium and verbena. Molasses
- The bloodroots flower near her feet as delicate as bible leaves, and slow, persistent ivy kindles on old trees.
- Amanda Rafferty of Haverhill took homeopathic sanguinaria canadensis, made from a toxic herb known as bloodroot, for her monthly migraine headaches. WCAV - HomePage - Headlines
