Wild Bleeding-heart

(Dicentra eximia)

 

Color Photograph: Tennessee Valley Authority

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Wild Bleeding-heart (Dicentra eximia)

Identification: Flowers dark pink to red-purple, heart shaped, with two rounded basal spurs. Outer petals flare outward and bracket a central red "drop". Flowers droop in clusters from the nodding stem. Leaves highly divided. Plant 10 to 16 inches in height.

Distribution: Illinois and Michigan in the west to southern New England in the east, southward to Georgia.

Habitat: Wild Bleeding-heart is found on rocky slopes and forests.

Flowering period: May to August.

Wild Bleeding-heart (Dicentra eximia)

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The red-purple, heart shaped flower and highly divided leaves are distinctive.

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