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Dicentra

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Dicentra
a genus of the Fumariaceae family of plants; contain an isoquinoline alkaloid which causes a syndrome of diarrhea, incoordination and other nervous signs. Includes D. cucullaria (dutchman's breeches), D. canadensis (squirrel corn), D. eximia (wild bleeding heart), D. formosa (western bleeding heart), D. spectabilis (dutchman's breeches, wild bleeding heart). Called also Bikukulla spp.


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Dicentra species will perform well in partial shade but do not care for acid soils.
Dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding heart) THIS reliable, elegant, clump-forming perennial bears fragile-looking, heart-shaped flowers with rose-pink outer petals and white inner ones, hanging from arching stems, in late spring and early summer.
She says her "bleeding heart" sculpture - entitled Dicentra - reflects the fact her "heart aches when I see the silted up lake choked with debris and broken branches".
 
 
 
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