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

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

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noun. The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.

noun. The field-gromwell, Lithospermum arvense.

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

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

noun. The alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria.

noun. One of the pigweeds, Amarantus retroflexus.

noun. 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.

noun. Any of several plants with red roots, such as the New Jersey tea, the gromwell, the bloodroot, and Lachnanthes tinctoria.

noun. 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

"The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this."

indian redroot  

Herb  herbaceous plant  

tea