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No nectar, but pollen, white flowers

Perennial from a short, thick rhizome with orange red juice, leaves, and flowers coming directly from rhizome…Flowers about May 1 The petals fall the first day and septals as soon as flowers is well opened. Abundant locally in woods along Red River and a short distance up the main tributaries. This is a popular wildflower and may be destroyed by picking because the rhizomes pull up easily. It was abundant in many places but use of woods for pasture has destroyed much of it. (Stevens, O. A. (1963). Handbook of North Dakota plants)

Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot) is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America. It is the only species in the genus Sanguinaria, included in the family Papaveraceae, and most closely related to Eomecon of eastern Asia.

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1. (c) Ryan Hodnett, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloodroot_(Sanguinaria_canadensis)_-_Kitchener,_Ontario.jpg
2. (c) Haley Selen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Haley Selen
3. (c) Biodiversity Heritage Library, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/5593600922/
4. Adapted by Megan W. from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanguinaria_canadensis

More Info

• iNat taxon page
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• eFloras.org
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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