General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 27 to 39 inches (70-100 cm)
Plant Spread: 20 to 31 inches (50-80 cm)
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Toxicity: Other: may cause skin irritation
Propagation: Seeds: Needs specific temperature: The seeds need a period of freezing temperatures.
Depth to plant seed: 0.5 cm
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Sow in autumn or winter, or: Sow at 18-22 C° for 4 weeks, move to minimum -4 C° for 6 weeks, move to 5-12 C°. for germination
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Divide after flowering

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Common names
  • Bleeding Heart
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lamprocapnos spectabilis
  • Synonym: Dicentra spectabilis

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Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2016-05-03
2:16 pm. White hearts, bursting open.
Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Date: May 9, 2014
White Bleeding Heart
Location: St Louis
Date: 2015-04-18

Date: 2012-04-03
Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Location: My Greenwood, MN garden
Date: 2017-05-01
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2006-05-09
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-06-12
Location: my front yard
Date: 2015-05-04
Location: Gardnerville, Nevada
Date: 2018-04-25
Location: My Gardens
Date: April 18, 2010
Very Close View
Location: my front yard
Date: 2005-04-25
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2016-05-03
2:16 pm. Elegant white blossoms, suspended in the air.

Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
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Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: May 7, 2009 9:24 AM
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2010-01-27
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2014-04-20
Location: my front yard
Date: 2014-05-14
Dicentra Alba with Spritzer Hosta, Lungwort and other perennials
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-06-17
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: May 30, 2009 8:46 PM

Date: 2015-04-01
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2009-05-07
Location: My Garden of Good and Evil
Date: 2023-03-11

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Location: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
photo credit: Cillas
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-06-08
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-04-18
Spring Bloom
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2015-03-31

Date: 2015-04-01

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
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Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
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Photo Courtesy of Garden Perennials. Used with Permission.
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