{"id":7921,"date":"2015-08-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2015-08-15T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:13:30","slug":"bloodroot-is-wonderful-woodland-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/08\/27\/bloodroot-is-wonderful-woodland-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodroot Is Wonderful Woodland Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bloodroot Emerging Through Leaf Litter In Spring<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bloodroot in Early Spring<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bloodgood (Sanguinaria canadensis<\/i>) is a long-lived rhizomatous native woodland wildflower. All plant parts exude a bright reddish-orange sap when cut, hence the common name. Indians utilized as a dye and sap is antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. Roots are poisonous if ingested (USDA hardiness zone 3 -9).<\/p>\n

In very early spring white or pale pink flowers with\u00a0bright yellow stamens\u00a0rise 6-10 inches tall.\u00a0Multiple flower stalks,\u00a0containing solitary\u00a08-10 petaled blooms, emerge wrapped around\u00a0by\u00a0a deeply-scalloped, grayish-green palmate leaf. Single flowers measure 2-inches across and open up in early\u00a0morning and close at dusk; it lasts only a few days. Scalloped leaves, some 9 inches across, continue to grow in size after\u00a0flowering is over and\u00a0remain attractive through early summer when the entire clump dies back (dormant) until late next winter.<\/p>\n

Bloodroot is best planted in a humus rich, well-drained soils in part to full shade. It\u00a0also performs in 1\/2 day morning sun, and in dry woodland soils (not initially, but once fully\u00a0established). In early spring (late winter in the South), large pure white flowers\u00a0arise atop 6-10 inch tall plants.\u00a0If site location is ideal,\u00a0bloodroot self-sows and forms small colonies in woodland shade.<\/p>\n

Early fall\u00a0or late\u00a0winter are ideal planting times to insure that\u00a0roots will establish before winter arrives. Potted plants have become more available at garden centers for those who shop for these woodland beauties early spring.<\/p>\n

Bloodroot is not troubled by disease or pest\u00a0problems provided\u00a0soil is well-drained.\u00a0Deer, rabbits, moles, voles, and other critters usually leave bloodgood alone. Over the past ten years bloodroot, along with other woodland perennials, have been appearing at local garden centers and specialty native plant emporiums. You should check with Barry Glick at Sunshine Farms in WV or Andrea Sessions at Sunlight Gardens in Andersonville, TN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Bloodgood (Sanguinaria canadensis) is a long-lived rhizomatous native woodland wildflower. All plant parts exude a bright reddish-orange sap when cut, hence the common name. Indians utilized as a dye and sap is antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. Roots are poisonous if ingested (USDA hardiness zone 3 -9). In very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1237,605,674,627,625,843,975,812,729,630,705,1056,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}