Description
(Blood Root)
ONTARIO INVASIVE COUNCIL RECOMMENDED PLANT ALTERNATIVE!
4” POTS.
Partial Shade/Shade
Zone 3
The single bloodroot leaf and flower each-rise on a separate stem, and at first the leaf completely entraps the flower bud. The clear, white, many-petaled blossoms may open before the leaf has completely unwrapped. Roots and stem with acrid red-orange juice. Moist location.
Leaves which are large, round and deep,y cleft, eventually reach a height of 12-14”. On a smooth stalk a solitarily white flower, with a golden-orange center, grows beside a lobed basal leaf that often curls around the stalk.
Flower Colour – White
Leaf Colour – Green
Bloom Time – May
Height – 6-14”
Space – 12”
Picture copied from Ontario Invasive Plant Council
