Sanguinaria canadensis
Bloodroot
Seed and Plant
(san·gui·nar·i·a can-a-DEN-sis)
Easyliving Native Perennial Wildflowers
Native Wild
Flower Seeds & Plants for Home Landscaping and Prairie Restoration
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Habitat | Bloom Period | Color | Height Inches | Moisture | Plant Spacing | Lifespan |
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Shade to Part Sun | March, April | White | 6 to 12 | Average to Moist |
12" to18" | Perennial |
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Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot
plants, $5 each plus UPS shipping.
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Ordering a larger number of plants will usually increase the shipping only a
small amount.
Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot seeds are only occasionally availably for a short time in
late spring and must be planted immediately.
Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot, is a charming woodland wildflower with very unusual foliage and flower. This plant grows up to 12 inches tall with a single lobed leaf on each stem. The flower appears first in early spring then the leaf emerges.
The thick horizontal root contains bright orange red juice that was widely used by native Americans for decorations and to treat a variety of ailments.
Plant Bloodroot with other native woodland wildflowers like Columbine Green Dragon American Spikenard Jack-in-the-pulpit Goat's Beard Wild Ginger Wild Geranium Virginia Bluebells Woodland Phlox Jacob's Ladder Celandine Poppy Woodland Spiderwort Purple Trillium White Trillium Blue Cohosh Black Cohosh Shooting Star Ginseng Christmas Fern Dutchman's Breeches
The delightfully unusual flowers of wild Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot bloom in March/April in average to moist shade along rocky slopes in woods, in ravines, and along bluffs.
The map below
shows areas where wild Sanguinaria
canadensis, Bloodroot
plants grow wild but it can be planted and will grow over
a much wider area.
USDA plant hardiness zones 2 to 9. poppy family, papaveraceae
Sanguinaria
canadensis, |
Alabama Arkansas Connecticut Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine |
Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota |
Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin |
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The minimum seed order amount is $10, this can be a combination of different
seeds.
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subtotal for flower seeds |
shipping charge for seeds |
| seed orders up to $20.00 = | $3.00 shipping |
| $20.01 - $50.00 = | $4.00 shipping |
| $50.01-$100.00 = | $5.00 shipping |
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over $100.00 = 5 % of subtotal |
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Sanguinaria canadensis, Bloodroot
Plant distribution map
complements of USDA, NRCS. 2001. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.1
(http://plants.usda.gov). National
Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.