Bloodroot is a native, perennial wildflower in Wisconsin. It grows five to 10 inches tall. It bears a single two-inch flower with a yellow center and eight to 10 petals. Each flower sits on its own pinkish stalk. Its single leaf and flower each rise on a separate stem. The leaf is bluish green, round, and four to seven inches wide with five to nine deeply cleft lobes per leaf. Initially, the leaf folds completely around the flower bud. The flower will open before the leaf has completely unwrapped, rising slightly above the leaf. It grows in part shade to shade in moist, well-drained, humus-rich soils. (EW)