Bloodroot
Sanguinaria canadensis L.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 36 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Papaveraceae
Also called Puccoon-root, Blood root
Formerly Belharnosia canadensis, Belharnosia mesochora, Sanguinaria acaulis, Sanguinaria australis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Ojibwa
- miskojiibik
- Swedish
- Blodört
- Spanish
- Sanguinaria Norteamericana
- French
- Sanguinaire du Canada
- German
- Kanadische Blutwurz
- Russian
- Сангвинария канадская
- Czech
- krevnice kanadská
- root
- maltuiajk, Gatgwéhsai’s, Tekanekwénshia’ks
- Chinese
- 血根草
- Chinese (China)
- 血根草
- Danish
- Blodurt
- Dutch
- Bloedwortel
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Sanguinaria canadensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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