Common Name:  Common Bleeding Heart

Scientific Name: Dicentra spectabilis

Family Name: Fumariaceae

Saluda, North Carolina

April 13, 2002

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A low perennial, about 16 inches tall, with drooping, flattened pink or rose flowers an inch or more long.  The leaves are not as finely divided as in the following 2 species.  These plants, rare on rich, wooded slopes and in the coves and gorges of only a few of our mountain counties, have a general range centered around the Appalachians.  April - June.  [Justice, William S. and Bell, C. Ritchie, Wild Flowers of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1968]

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