#sanguinaria canadensis

[geopsych]

Hey Mom, just in case you can see Tumblr from wherever you are in the afterlife, if there is one, I’m still going out to woods in spring looking for bloodroot all these years later thanks to you! ❤️

[oliviarosaline]

Bloodroot

Sanguinaria canadensis

March 31st, 2023

Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[snototter]

A bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) flower

by Jim Petranka

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

I went down to Willie's Bluff, and timed it just right this year.

Bloodroot - Sanguinaria canadensis

[bewitchedbotanist]

Spring hiking around northern Arkansas. I haven't been out hiking much this year yet, but hopefully I'll manage to get out more at the end of April to catch some more spring wildflowers.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis Papaveraceae Family

Photographs taken on April 15, 2023, at Starkey Hill, Ontario, Canada.

[cedar-glade]

Sanguinaria canadensis

Eastern bloodroot is perhaps one of my favorite ephemerals to catch, they truly have an incredibly quick early cycle and almost immediately after a few days of steady visits from pollinators they start to senesce petals. What would be really cool to see is just the geophytic development of the foliage in the ground that wraps the bud. the leaf isn’t associated as a fusion of its petiole directly to the pedicel of the flower yet they develop in unison leaf clasping the bud and petiole and them in a below ground rosette sheathe. Geophyte developement is so cool in the fact that since it isn’t seen it feel like a cool mystery of how it all fits together.

The other cool thing about this ephemeral poppy is that it had many practical uses historically, the chemical burns from the sap were used to remove skin cancer at one point and it was even used in dye from both Native people and Appalachian people.

[hotdishwildflowers]

bloodroots sound more metal than they are. but-- spooky season is here, soooo

(my photos: April 2021)

[dailybotany]

Sanguinaria canadensis, 2024.

[faguscarolinensis]

Sanguinaria canadensis / Bloodroot at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC

[thebotanicalarcade]

Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide

[geopsych]

Bloodroots! I didn't expect this or I would have visited there yesterday when it was sunny and they would have been open. I thought it was too early . Now I have to wait through a couple days of rain and see how many are still blooming. They call them spring ephemerals for a reason.

[creature-fromthewoods]

Bloodroot - Sanguinaria Canadensis

© Tyler Doggett

[deathtek]

6/1/22

[couchtaro]

Phaela

Fourth in my portrait series is my own girl, Phaela Murphy, tiefling soup twilight cleric and circle of stars druid. DM is @bacoj8.

Flowers

Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) : simple leisure, faith. Phaela's patron god, Thelona, is the god of simple pleasures.

Cineraria: always delighted

Queen Anne’s lace/Wild carrot (Daucus carota): sanctuary, home

Celery (Apium graveolens): Feasting, festivity

Stephanotis: desire to travel, friendship. Phaela and her best friend Izen live together in her truck, traveling from town to town in search of work and sights to see.

Bloodroot/Sweet slumber (Sanguinaria canadensis): protective love

Purple hyacinth (Hyacinthus): Benevolence, rashness, impulsivity, play, grief, please forgive me. Phaela's virtue name is Temerity, which suits her well-meaning but somewhat impulsive need to help others. She is playful and kind, but carries a deep grief as well.

Bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus): self sacrifice, survival

Meadow cress (Cardamine pratensis): ardor, devotion, enthusiasm. According to folk belief, this flower brings bad luck if brought into the home. It is not included in May Day wreaths and garlands because some believed that wearing it would offend the fae, who would drag you underground into another world. Phaela was separated from her home forever when, in order to ditch a deal with a hag, she trapped herself in the Shadowfell.

Night Convolvulus (Convolvulus): night, repose, rebirth, affection, embrace

Sunflower (Helianthus): warmth, nourishment, devotion. This flower is redundant, I just wanted it as a treat. Yellow :)

Forget me not (Myosotis): Clinging to the past, do not forget me, faithful love, memories. Ough.

Check out the rest of the Pringles Party!

Theseus | Izen | Yancy | “Red”

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words related to Spring

to include in your next poem/story

Bloodroot -> a plant (Sanguinaria canadensis) of the poppy family having a red root and sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring.

Bluebonnet -> either of two low-growing annual lupines (Lupinus subcarnosus or L. texensis) of Texas with silky foliage and blue flowers.

Coltsfoot -> a perennial composite herb (Tussilago farfara) with yellow flower heads appearing before the leaves.

Crocus -> any of a genus (Crocus) of herbs of the iris family developing from corms and having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear leaves.

Magnolia -> any of a genus (Magnolia of the family Magnoliaceae, the magnolia family) of American and Asian shrubs and trees with entire evergreen or deciduous leaves and usually showy white, yellow, rose, or purple flowers usually appearing in early spring.

Morel -> any of several edible fungi (genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta) having a conical cap with a highly pitted surface.

Mourning cloak -> a blackish-brown nymphalid butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) that has a broad yellow border on the wings and is found in temperate parts of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Skunk cabbage -> any of several early-blooming perennial herbs of the arum family that occur in shaded, wet to swampy areas and have a fetid odor suggestive of a skunk.

Spring peeper -> a small brown tree frog (Pseudacris crucifer synonym Hyla crucifer) of the eastern U.S. and Canada that has a shrill piping call and breeds in ponds and streams in the spring. They are often just called peepers start singing on some of the earliest warm spring nights, ushering in the season with an evocative chorus. While they are highly successful in permanent ponds, they also utilize temporary, ephemeral ponds that appear briefly in the spring due to rain and snowmelt.

Tulip -> any of a genus (Tulipa) of Eurasian bulbous herbs of the lily family that have linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and are widely grown for their showy flowers.