Mature transplants added to a woodland degraded by cattle grazing in Wisconin were "well established" and had reproduced within the eight years that the plants were monitored, but the authors did not report number of years to reproduction (Ellarson and Craven 1982) .

Once established bloodroot can have high vegetative spread, and it self-sows  (DeLong), but produces few seeds per plant (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991).