At this time he finds that many of our wild flowers-the bloodroot, hepatica, columbine, shinleaf, maidenhair fern, etc.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
It looks like bloodroot, don't it?
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some young student of botany may have noticed along one side of the glossy seeds of the bloodroot a delicate, fleshy ridge, and wondered what could be its use.
"Seed Dispersal"
William J. Beal