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Dicentra eximia |
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Fringed
Bleeding Heart, Plume
Bleeding Heart, Wild
Bleeding Heart, Turkey
Corn, Staggerweed |
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Mountain areas of New York and Pennsylvania to
Georgia and Tennessee -
United States |
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Stemless rhizomatous perennial of dry or moist mountain
woodlands |
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12 to18 inches tall and 18 inches wide |
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The heart-shaped, pink to purple flowers are
borne in compound racemes. The corolla tapers
from a cordate base into a narrow apex, often separating below
the middle. The flower flower scape is nearly as tall as the
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Peak bloom occurs in early summer but with
flowering continues into the fall. |
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The finely dissected leaves are gray-blue in
color. Basal leaves are ternately compound while the
highly noticeable stem leaves are dissected. The leaf
segments are broadly oblong or ovate. |
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-
Alba' - Pure white flowers and pale green foliage.
- 'Boothman's variety' - soft pink flowers with blue-green
foliage.
- 'Stuart Boothman' - Pink flowers with smokey grey foliage,
16 inches tall.
- 'Adrian Bloom' - Crimson-red flowers, blue-green
foliage. It was selected by Adrian's father,
Alan Bloom as a seedling of 'Bountiful'.
- 'Baccharal' - Darkest
red of the cultivars.
- 'Bountiful' - Deep pink flowers, blue-green foliage.
Flowers heavy in spring and autumn with intermittent
blossoms during the summer.
- 'Luxuriant' - Flower buds cherry red, flowers red,
blue-green foliage. Flowers intermittently until frost.
- 'Pearl Drops' - Pearl white flowers on glaucous foliage.
- 'Silver Smith' - Pure white flowers and blue-green
foliage.
- 'Snowflakes' - White flowers, long bloom period.
- 'Zestful' - Pink flowers, 12-15 inches tall.
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