The flower has four petals between one and two centimeters long in shades of purple to pink to nearly white. The plant can approach half a meter in height. It is a perennial that grows from a horizontal rootstock (tuber). For a constant blooming flower bed, you can plant them in areas with other shady plants that will leaf out later in the season such as Indian Pinks, Soloman’s Seal, Ferns, and some Asters.īleeding hearts spread is 1′-2′ tall and wide and they are low maintenance.About Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) 36 Nurseries Carry This Plantĭicentra formosa, the western bleeding heart or Pacific bleeding heart, is a flowering plant in Poppy family, generally found in moist wooded areas from California to British Columbia. They look beautiful next to Hostas, Bluebells, Plox, and the Pasque flower during the spring. The seed is then left in their nest to germinate! Consider Dicentra for an early spring flowering plant. They take the seed back to their nest to eat that sticky substance. Dutchman’s Breeches from ĭicentra’s seeds are dispersed by ants! The seeds are coated in a sticky substance that ants love. Of course there are many other things honey bees enjoy and the more we can provide our native bees the better our landscape is. The honey bee isn’t able to use it as a nectar source because its tongue isn’t long enough to reach the nectar in its flower. It is an early nectar source for native bees and also migrating hummingbirds. They may keep blooming in cooler weather, but will stop flowering or the plant will die back once heat of the summer settles in. We love how many native plants are named after what they may look like! Squirrel Corn from ĭicentra is a woodland plant blooming in the spring, liking moist soils. There are three varieties we can typically find, Dicentra canadensis (Squirrel Corn), Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman’s Breeches), Dicentra eximia (Wild Bleeding Heart).
Often native plant nurseries will call them by their genus name or their other common name to distinguish they are a native. The native Bleeding Hearts fall into the genus ‘Dicentra’. However, there are a few types of Dicentra Bleeding Hearts native to Kentucky! The common ones we see at a lot plant nurseries are a type from China called, Lamprocapnos spectabilis, so they aren’t even in the genus Dicentra. In the spring we often see the plants commonly called Bleeding Hearts in our Kentucky landscape.
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