![]() ![]() Lookee-likees: the flowers are reminiscent of Fumitories such as Purple Ramping-Fumitory, ( Fumaria purpurea) less so of Milkworts such as Common Milkwort ( Polygala vulgaris) (which lack spurs, but do have a similar flattened bisymmetric shape). The leaves are planar even the leaf 'stalks' are flattened.Įach leaflet tooth tipped by a tiny Hydathode (means of expelling water). The pinnules are toothed but the cuts dont go all the way to the centre, otherwise the leaves might be described as tetrapinnate. The leaves are tripinnately lobed, with the individual pinnules being toothed at the end. One presumes that the brighter green leaves are newer. Leaves both bright-green and glaucous-green. Exactly what these structures are botanically one can only guess that some are anthers whilst others are styles, but exactlywhich is which your Author can only ponder. The blue-purple rim is now seen end-on.Īnother view of the two heart-shaped petals, their two short spurs at the rear and the central doubled green and blue-purple rims revealed between the now fully opened petals. The top-most flower shows the same but turned at right-angles, where it can also be clearly seen that the two parts of the pink heart have a central bulge. When the two symmetrical opposite parts of the cupped 'mouth' are open two fused lime-green 'tongues' can be seen and between them apparently 'oozing out' is a bluish-purple flattened rim, one either side (the two flowers at the bottom). With TWO spurs at the rear (albeit short and rounded) and two sepals, one each side these flowers look more like those of Fumitories such as Purple Ramping-Fumitory, less so of Milkworts such as Common Milkwort (which lack spurs, but do have a similar flattened bisymmetric shape). Each side of a flattened heart-shape are two darker green sepals/tepals, one each side. As the flowers mature they become more heart-shaped, the rounded protrusions at the rear being two short wide and flattened spurs. Some stems even do the twist with their flutes/ribs. The flowers are like a double-barreled shotgun, with two long parts side by side, oval in outline except at the end where two cupped petals splay out sideways. On close inspection the main stem is fluted/ribbed and the side-branches angular. The flowers dangle in small racemes in close bunches, with the number of flowers on one upright stem about 9.īefore the flowers are several very long in relation to their width bracts which taper gradually to a point. With planar fern-like leaves and small bunches of drooping flowersĮven from close-up your Author had no idea what these flowers were. Specific epithet means distinguished or out of the ordinary.Bleeding-Heart / Bleeding Heart - Wild Flower FinderīLEEDING-HEART Dicentra formosa Poppy Family Ģ0th April 2018, Skellgill, Newlands Valley, Cumbria Genus name comes from the Greek words dis meaning twice and kentron meaning a spur for the two-spurred flowers. spectabilis is taller and wider, its flowers are larger and its foliage is less dissected and usually goes dormant by mid-summer. Similar in appearance to the showy, old garden bleeding heart from Asia, D. In cooler climates, flowering may continue throughout the summer, but in the hotter climates, the flowering will generally stop in hot weather, with a possible rebloom occurring only when the weather cools in late summer or early fall. Plant typically grows to 15" tall, with the flower stems and basal leaves growing directly out of the scaly rootstock. Protruding inner petals of the flower appear to form a drop of blood at the bottom of each heart-shaped flower (hence the common name of bleeding heart). Features deeply-cut, fern-like, grayish-green, foliage which persists throughout the growing season and pink to purplish red, nodding, heart-shaped flowers carried above the foliage on long, leafless, leaning stems. Dicentra eximia, commonly called fringed bleeding heart, is a native wildflower of the eastern United States that typically occurs on forest floors, rocky woods and ledges in the Appalachian Mountains.
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