Bloodroot Bursting Forth

Bloodroot is a favorite wildflower of my childhood.  We used to

pull up the flower, root and all and smear the orange juice from the root on our bodies---We were "tough and rough, we thought." 



At present, I have some transplanted and thriving bloodroot in my garden.  As you can see, it is sending its spring sprouts upward as I
type.


Below is an excerpt from Google:


"Bloodroot is native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia, Canada southward to Florida, United States, and west to Great Lakes and down the Mississippi embayment.

Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. The seeds have a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants. The ants take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. They also benefit from growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris.''