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Bleeding Heart

Dicentra spectabilis

Photo by keithp2012
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

The blossoms are pink and rose pink with white tips, or white. The hearts hang from the horizontal branches. The foliage will span 30 to 36 inches wide.

Habitat:

The Bleeding Heart Flower is a flower for a shade garden, as sun will burn the leaves. They like a rich, moist well drained soil.

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keithp2012
Cant find the white variety being sold anywhere but to be truthful the pink one I have gets Huge with hundreds of blooms

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The Color Pink
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PublishedApril 30, 2011

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