Noun: tetterwort
- 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 tetterwort for its medicinal properties";
- bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis
Type of: herb, herbaceous plant
Part of: genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria
Encyclopedia: Tetterwort