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Pics - Sanguinaria canadensis L. - Bloodroot

13 years ago

For your enjoyment, here are some pics I took on 04.25.11 of Sanguinaria canadensis L. Bloodroot growing in my woodland gardens.

The plants in the photos were transplanted to these locations either by me or by my father in the early 1990s. The originals came from my father's backyard wildflower garden in Minneapolis that he started in the late 1960s and maintained until the early 1990s. He originally got them from city parks and woodland fragments in the metropolitan area well before the modern (justifiable) concerns about too many plants being taken from the wild. His methods should be considered an unacceptable practice in today's world of declining wild things and places.

It should be noted that some of those very same parks and woodland fragments are now paved parking lots, business developments, and freeway.

If interested, click images to see full size.

Please do not dig up native plants from the few wild places we have left.

-Tom

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wisconsitom
13 years ago
Very nice Tom. I was just looking at some of these yesterday near one of our storm water detention ponds. This particular site is in an area that was developed but in which all wooded sections were not destroyed. So such remnant patches do exist there. Ironically, to me at least, the big push around these ponds is for "native vegetation". Somehow, this has come to mean prairie, even though this area was not a prairie originally. Somehow, the remaining patches of forest are not considered native. This is very troubling to me, and I am gradually working to adjust the outlook of the storm water engineers with whom I work. The difficulty springs from the fact that I've gotten onboard this particular initiative 15 years too late.

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soilent_green
Original Author
13 years ago
wisconsitom,

Thanks for your post. I have kind of wondered that myself about the detention ponds in cities and towns around me as well. I assumed the "prairie" look was simply a design expediency to be able to dig out the ponds with an excavator if they silted up. I agree that they would be more functional for native flora and fauna if, say, half the area around the pond was planted as an open woods.

I wonder if the design folks simply followed the natural human bias toward open spaces...or maybe it is just a budget thing?

I appreciate your (and anyone's) efforts to change the established way of thinking.

-Tom
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Yeah, I was at a conference wherein the guy that actually made the big prairie push in this region was main speaker. He readily admitted that it was his own bias that led so many down this path. He did allow that, for systems having the ability, more plant communities can and should be incorporated into these sites. I've made a few exploratory moves into this territory, having to be careful not to "scare" the engineers!

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Iris GW
13 years ago
Gorgeous pictures!
fatamorgana2121
13 years ago
Very nice find and pics!

FataMorgana

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