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Sanguinaria canadensis, bloodroot, [3] is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America. [4] It is the only species in the genus Sanguinaria , included in the poppy family Papaveraceae , and is most closely related to Eomecon of eastern Asia.
During the 1920s and 1930s, sanguinarine was the chief component of "Pinkard's Sanguinaria Compound," a drug sold by Dr. John Henry Pinkard. Pinkard advertised the compound as "a treatment, remedy, and cure for pneumonia, coughs, weak lungs, asthma, kidney, liver, bladder, or any stomach troubles, and effective as a great blood and nerve tonic."
The plant was brought to the United States by immigrants to serve as hand-foraged grain. The grass is also highly nutritious, especially before the plant exhausts itself producing seed. It is frequently sown in fields to provide graze for animals, or clipped and bundled as hay .
Sanguinaria canadensis.Canada Puccoon, or Bloodwort.From Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. V, by William Curtis.. Puccoon / p ə ˈ k uː n / is a common name that refers to any of several plants formerly used by certain Native Americans for dyes. [1]
Bloodwort or Sanguinaria canadensis is a flowering plant native to eastern North America.. Bloodwort may also refer to: . Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant species native to the Northern Hemisphere and introduced in New Zealand and Australia
The plants are hermaphroditic and pollinated mostly by insects (entomophilous), but nectaries are lacking. A few are wind pollinated (anemophilous). There is a distinct calyx and corolla, except in Macleaya where the corolla is lacking. The flowers are medium-sized or large. The terminal flowers are solitary in many species.
Anigozanthos Bush Pearl. Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne.. Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous angiosperms (flowering plants) containing 15 genera [3] and 102 known species, [5] sometimes known as the "bloodroots", found throughout the Southern Hemisphere, from Australia and New Guinea to South Africa, as well as the Americas (from extreme southeastern USA through tropical ...
Sanguinaria, Bloodroot Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
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