Seasonal interest: Blooming is most intense in early to mid spring and will continue sporadically until fall wild bleeding heart is among the first plants to leaf out in April and can have good-looking foliage well into fall I have grown this plant under the canopy of a Norway maple (dry shade) with good success. Mature size: 12 to 18 inches tall and wideīenefits and tolerances: Resistant to deer and rabbit browsing the f oliage will look good all season in a shady location. Light requirement: Sun to shade does best in partial sunlight or open shade will tolerate more sun if the soil is kept moist It has wider, more rounded flowers with shorter wings on the outer petals (see the photo below).Water requirement: Prefers moist soil but will survive under drier conditions Pacific bleeding-heart ( Dicentra formosa) is frequently confused with and sold as Dicentra eximia. Each has a white elaiosome prized by ants. They ripen to black while the pod is still green. There are two tiny, triangular, pink sepals above the petals. The pistil is enclosed within the inner petals, and the two stamens are on either side. The inner petals are perpendicular to the outer petals and connected at the tip. The two outer petals are pouched at the base and bent back at the tips. The four petals are connected at the base. Leaves are finely divided and gray-green, growing from the base of the plant.įlowers are pink and bloom in tight clusters at the top of leafless, fleshy stems above the leaves from mid- spring to autumn. Dicentra eximia is a perennial herb in the Papaveraceae family. It is similar to the Pacific bleeding-heart ( Dicentra formosa), which grows on the Pacific Coast. Dicentra eximia ( wild or fringed bleeding-heart, turkey-corn) is a flowering plant with fernlike leaves and oddly shaped flowers native to the Appalachian Mountains.
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