Sanguinaria canadensis is a herbaceous perennial native to eastern North America including southern parts of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces. The Multiplex form is a mutant discovered near Dayton Ohio in 1916 by an amateur botanist Mr. Guido von Webern who had a love of nature and a perceptive eye. The Multiplex form is a sterile plant that cannot set seed as all stamens and even the carpals are transformed into petals. Because this plant does not set seed, the individual blooms will last much longer (up to a week.
