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Categories: Flora of Eastern Canada, Native American culture, Abortifacients, Dyes, Garden plants of North America

bloodroot puccoon redroot tetterwort Sanguinaria canadensis

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 WordNet 3.0

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Puccoon is a common name that refers to any of several plants formerly used by certain Native Americans for dyes. Wikipedia

Lachnanthes is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the bloodwort family containing only one species, i.e., Lachnanthes caroliana, commonly known as Carolina redroot or bloodroot. Wikipedia

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A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring. Wiktionary

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Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens. Wiktionary

Any of several plants with red roots, such as the New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus), the gromwell (Lithospermum arvense), the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and Lachnanthes caroliniana (syn. Lachnanthes tinctoria). Wiktionary

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis

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Lachnanthes, puccoon, tetterwort

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