Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) is one of several strikingly lovely spring ephemerals that bloom only for a short window of time just after winter chill, but before the spring frenzy and summer ...

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise — and possibly a nasty rash, if you happen to pick some pretty white flowers. The deceptively delicate flowers of bloodroot, a ...

In the late 1990s, dentists started to notice an increase in leukoplakia, a condition that is often a precursor to cancer. Ohio State Professor of Oral Pathology and Dentistry Carl Allen compared all ...

At the Schuylkill Center’s front door, in the garden on the right as you approach the entrance, is a small stand of wildflowers that started opening late last week- one of the most welcome of the many ...

Even though spring’s first day is more than three weeks away, some of my most favorite wildflowers of early spring — and of the entire year — are blooming now. They include trout lilies, hepatica and ...

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) is surely one of most widely admired wildflowers in the eastern United States. Walk from now until late April through any rocky, deciduous forest or along a woodland ...

Daisy-like flowers always cheer me up. I think that is why I love spring ephemerals like Bloodroot and Hepatica. Bloodroot comes up in a cloak, wrapped like Phantom of the Opera and has a large ...

Peeking from the soil in my yard on March 26 were green leaves about an inch tall that I hadn’t seen yesterday. They were the leaves of bloodroot, which produces white, multi-petaled flowers close to ...

Trillium: Known as "wake robin" because it's a harbinger of spring, three-leaved trillium has a large flower with flaring white petals that resemble a lily. Attractive reddish purple seed capsules ...

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis is one of the earliest blooming wildflowers in the woodland garden. This perennial native is in the poppy family, and gets its common name bloodroot, because the ...