redroot

An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers.

A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers.

The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.

The field-gromwell, Lithospermum arvense.

An American shrub, Ceanothus Americanus, the New Jersey tea.

A herbaceous plant, Lachnanthes tinctoria, of the Hæmodoraceæ, or bloodwort family.

The alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria.

One of the pigweeds, Amarantus retroflexus.

A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.