1. Other common names include Bloodwort, Indian paint, puccoon, and red puccoon

2. Blood root, COON ROOT, PUCCOON ROOT, RED PUCCOON, RED PAINT ROOT, or TETTERWORT

3. Bloodroot is Sanguinaria canadensis in the Latin (other species are also called Bloodroot, but are not the same) and goes by the names bloodwort, red puccoon root, pauson and tetterwort

4. Bloodroot, (Sanguinaria canadensis), also called red puccoon, plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), native throughout eastern and midwestern North America.It grows in deciduous woodlands, where it blooms in early spring, and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental