1. 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
   "Native Americans used Sanguinaria canadensis for its medicinal properties";
   - bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, tetterwort

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria

Encyclopedia: Sanguinaria canadensis