{"id":2180,"date":"2011-04-25T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:59:12","slug":"bloodroot-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/bloodroot-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodroot is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2185\" title=\"bloodroot_wild\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloodroot_wild.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Beautiful Bloodroot is a woodlands flower that blooms, for us in Pennsylvania, during the first or second week in April. Large, lovely palm-sized leaves envelop a single white flower\u2014the bloom lasting a mere week or so. Once the petals have fallen, the lush, green foliage heartily remains through the warm months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2184\" title=\"bloodroot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloodroot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Before I go any further, let me mention: Bloodroot is TOXIC. Do not consume any part of the bloodroot plant.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, a name like \u201cBloodroot\u201d deserves a little research, don&#8217;t you think?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising the name refers to its orange-red root. Stems will \u201cbleed\u201d this color when broken and Native Americans used the juice for everything from face and body paint (which lasted for days) to dye.<\/p>\n<p>Root teas were fashioned to combat asthma, laryngitis, coughs, etc. Topically, Bloodroot poultices were used to treat eczema, warts, and skin cancer\u2014its \u201cactive ingredient\u201d is sanguinarine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>ACS Chemistry for Life <\/em>website, \u201cSanguinarine is an antimicrobial used in mouthwashes and toothpaste to guard against inflammation brought on by gingivitis. It has also been found to protect against skin cancer by enhancing the production of proteins that induce the death of cells damaged by UV-B radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2183\" title=\"bloodroot_domestic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloodroot_domestic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>There is so much information online about this unique, singular, almost \u201creclusive\u201d woodlands plant!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are lucky enough to be able to observe it in the wild (it&#8217;s protected in many states so please abide by this when observing Bloodroot in its natural habitat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful Bloodroot is a woodlands flower that blooms, for us in Pennsylvania, during the first or second week in April. Large, lovely palm-sized leaves envelop a single white flower\u2014the bloom lasting a mere week or so. Once the petals have fallen, the lush, green foliage heartily remains through the warm months. Before I go any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,35,18,19,186,36,60],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bloodroot","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-medicinal-plant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}