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Dutchman’s breeches, blue staggers (Dicentra cucullaria)

Cultural notes: Sometimes known as blue staggers because of its narcotic and occasionally lethal effects on grazing cattle The species is a spring ephemeral. In summer’s heat, the leaves turn yellow and disappear, to re-emerge the following spring from a bulb-like corm.
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