Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.
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Examples for "puccoon "
Examples for "puccoon "
1 To-day Mrs. Bassett rejoiced in the discovery of the season's first puccoon , showing its orange-yellow cluster on a sandy slope.
2 The blood-root, sanguinaria, or puccoon , as it is termed by some of the native tribes, is worthy of attention from the root to the flower.
1 Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.
2 She found clumps of bloodroot , great anemone-flowers that she picked by the handful.
3 A drop of orange-red sap from bloodroot smeared between the toes twice a day.
4 Rachel found the bloodroot first, under a shaded outcrop where a spring head seeped.
5 By this time the hepatica, anemone saxifrage, arbutus, houstonia, and bloodroot may be counted on.
6 You will find bloodroot growing in rich soil either in open woods or on rocky slopes.
7 She learned the uses and prices of the plant, and also made drawings of cohosh, moonseed and bloodroot .
8 And the bloodroot kindles at dawn
9 On the other side of the outcrop, she found more bloodroot and a thick growth of cinnamon ferns.
10 The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming.
11 While I have numbered bloodroot among May flowers, it often does appear in April, and before the wood anemone.
12 For May there are the dog-tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets.
13 He rose and joined his wife, who held toward him a handful of trailing arbutus, rue anemones, bloodroot , and dicentras.
14 Early in April there is one hillside near us which glows like a tender flame with the white of the bloodroot .
15 Blackberries, redbud and dogwood enliven its banks in the spring, and we saw where hepatica, bloodroot , and anemone grew in abundance.
16 Royal didn't know a spring beauty from a bloodroot , and when we heard a song-sparrow he said it was a thrush.
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