Common Name: Common Bleeding Heart
Scientific Name: Dicentra spectabilis
Family Name: Fumariaceae
Saluda, North Carolina
April 13, 2002
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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Alphabetical Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Family Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z