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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.
Indigenous Australians use this plant to make red, brown and purple dyes for coloring plant fibres. [1] [2] [6] [8]The bulbous red root is chopped or crushed and boiled in water to release the red-brown dyes, while the purple shades are made from H. coccineum fruit.
The Haemodoraceae were first described by Robert Brown in 1810, [1] and bear his name as the botanical authority.An alternative name has been Haemodoreae [4]. The fourth Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (unchanged from the earlier APG systems of 2009, 2003 and 1998), also recognizes this family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots.
Haemodorum corymbosum, commonly known as the rush-leaf bloodroot, is a shrub native to southeastern Australia. [1] Danish-Norwegian naturalist Martin Vahl described this species in his 1805 work Enumeratio Plantarum. [2] It grows as a strappy herbaceous shrub 40–70 cm high, with three to four 40–75 cm long leaves arising from the base.
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It is extracted from some plants, including the bloodroot plant, from whose scientific name, Sanguinaria canadensis, its name is derived; the Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana); [1] Chelidonium majus; and Macleaya cordata.
Haemodorum distichophyllum, also known as the Moorland Bloodroot, is a plant in the Haemodoraceae (blood root) family, native to Tasmania. [2] It was first described by William Jackson Hooker in 1852, from a specimen collected at Macquarie Harbour by Ronald Gunn in 1846.
The generic name "Lachnanthes" is a conserved name in botany. This means that the name has been granted a special exemption to the ordinary priority rules, allowing a newer name to be used instead of an older one. Three names are relevant here: [8] Heritiera Aiton, Hortus Kewensis 3: 546. 1789. Heritiera J.F. Gmelin, Systema Naturae, ed. 13 2: ...