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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
gt; Plant list (植物リスト) > Papaveraceae (ケシ科) > Sanguinaria canadencis
Sanguinaria (Willd) R. Br. (カナダゲシ)Kanadageshi (カナダゲシ, 加奈陀芥子), bloodroot, Canada puccoon, bloodwort, redroot, red puccoon and black pasteLifeform: perennial forb Distribution: eastern North America (Nova Scotia-Florida) - west to the Great Lakes - Mississippi embayment Habitat: moist to dry woodlands and thickets, including on floodplains, near shores and streams |
Leaf: highly variable, green (head) and white (tail) Rhizome: red-orange Use: crude material for medicine (sanguinarine, poisonous when fresh), ornamental (a few cultivars) |
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[1-3] in the experimental station of medicinal plant studies, Hokkaido University, on April 15 2023.