The white petals of the bloodroots stand out against the green grass in the ditches and against the fallen oak leaves in the woods. But the sap in the stems and roots is a reddish color and gives the plant its name.
Bloodroot Blossoms
Picture of the Day for April 26, 2023
Enjoying some sunshine today, the bloodroots finally started to open up this spring. With reddish sap throughout the plant, especially when root is cut, gave its common name of bloodroot.
Bloodroots Opening Up
Picture of the Day for May 5, 2022
After only seeing some leaves poking out of the ground for the last few days, the second wildflower of the season finally opened up. Although the bloodroot blossom closes back up at night or very cloudy days. When the root of the plant is cut, a reddish sap oozes out which leads to the plant’s common name of bloodroot.
Second Wildflower
Picture of the Day for March 27, 2022
It probably is a good thing that there is no hint of spring wildflowers yet, not when the temperature dropped down to 10 degrees overnight and minus zero wind chills. Plus the forecast mentions the s word for several days so more likely to see snowflakes than white blossom petals.
No Wildflowers Yet
Picture of the Day for April 9, 2021
Another rainy day has the lawn feeling rather squishy and my pond overflowing, but at least all the precipitation has been rain instead of snow, otherwise a deep coating of white would be covering the new emerging white blossoms of the bloodroots.
White of the Bloodroots
Picture of the Day for March 20, 2021
The calendar says it the first day of spring and the temperature was in the 50s, even if I have a little snow still on the ground. So far no signs of any wildflowers blooming in my woods yet, but hopefully soon instead of white snow there will be white bloodroots.
Bloodroots Blooming
Picture of the Day for April 16, 2020
The snow is melting but there is still a lot covering the ground in the woods. Maybe after a few more sunny days, the white snow will melt to allow the white bloodroots to bloom as they are usually the second wildflower to blossom in my woods.
Waiting for the Pretty White
Picture of the Day for March 20, 2020
For the first full day of spring, the white falling wasn’t flower petals dropping from blossoms but those cold snowflakes instead. And the temperatures barely reached freezing so felt more wintry than springlike.
Falling White
Picture of the Day for May 7, 2018
With the temperature in the 80s today, it is hard to believe that snow was still on the ground last Monday but already my neighbor mowed his lawn in less than a week later. I did see a lot of white in the woods today between the bloodroots and the wood anemones, which is more pleasurable white to see than snow.
Bloodroot White
Picture of the Day for April 20, 2017
The wildflowers seem very slow this spring, even though the snow left earlier than some years but apparently the flowers are like me wanting warmer and sunnier spring days. The was a big delay between the first wildflower until the bloodroots finally emerged.
Season First Bloodroots
