Bleeding Heart

[edit] Plant Name and Description

Latin: Dicentra spp.

Dicentra formosa (Bleeding Heart)

Dicentra chrysantha (Golden Ear-drops)

Dicentra pauciflora (Few-flowered Bleeding Heart)

Dicentra uniflora (Steer's Head))

Synonym:

Family: Poppy

Bleeding Hearts is an elegant perennial that bears clusters of rose-pink pendulous flowers held above blue-green, fern-like foliage in the spring and summer.(Full description)

[edit] Landscape Type

Perennial

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Hair Growth

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[edit] Habitat

Dicentra formosa: Moist, shady, streambanks below 7,000 feet; Dicentra chrysantha: Disturbed sites below 5,000 feet south of Calaveras County; Dicentra pauciflora: Gravelly habitat from 6,000-10,000 feet in Tulare and Tuolumne Counties; Dicentra unifloraa: Rocky habitats from 5,400-12,000 feet north of Fresno County.

[edit] Collection Season

Leaf: Summer

NOTE:Despite a history of internal use by Native Americans, use externally only, due to potentially poisonous compounds in the plant.