Any of several species of Dicentra , a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae).
The old garden favourite is the Japanese D. spectabilis , which has small rosy-red and white, heart-shaped flowers dangling from arching stems. The eastern, or wild, bleeding heart ( D. eximia ) produces sprays of small pink flowers from April to September in the Allegheny Mountains region of the U.S. The Pacific, or western, bleeding heart ( D. formosa ), ranging from California to British Columbia, has several varieties of garden interest.
Bleeding heart ( Dicentra spectabilis )
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