Bleeding heart

Bleeding heart native to china, Siberia and Japan, is a perennial herb flowers. Stems erect, slightly outward opening, high-3060cm, and a root tubers. Leaves opposite, with long-handled, for the two back to three compound leaves, a little like peony leaves. Flowering in April and May in Beijing, as occupies one side of the raceme, drooping. Two sepals, caducous. Petals four, foreign a pair of red, the base of cystic; within a pair of white, stretched out on foreign petals, the heart-shaped form, just like purse-shaped. By peony leaves like leaves, Flowers purse, hence the name “bicuculline.”

Bleeding heart Habits:


Yoshimitsu. Resistant to semi-shade. Of strong, cold and summer heat intolerance, hi humid, intolerant of drought. Should be rich in organic matter, loam, sand and clay in poor growth.


Bleeding heart morphology:


Perennial herb, height 30 ~ 60cm. With fleshy rhizomes. Leaves opposite, 2 return to three pinnate, the shape of peony leaves, leaves with white powder, a long-handled, lobes obovate. Raceme was arch-shaped top students. Flowers drooping to one side, peach red, white varieties; the base of the petals out of two cystic, nearly white within two, the shape of pockets. Capsule thin and long. Small seeds with pappus.


Raceme, flowers few flowers to more than 10 flowers, was born in branches bend under the arch-shaped top growth on the slender side of the total stems, petals 4, cross the inside and outside the two-tier arrangement. Outer two pink or red rose heart-shaped joint into the base enlargement of cystic like pockets, hence the name bicuculline. The inner two pink and white, slender, extending from the outer flap of the package was outside the pistil in male, like bells, so the alias bell grass.


Bleeding heart Landscape Uses:


Should be arranged flower border, Flower beds, can also be potted for forcing culture for cut flowers. Can also be decorated with rock gardens or large-scale cultivation in the forest. Dicentra foliage beautiful, exquisite flowers, shape of pockets, colorful, potted plants and cut flowers is a good material, but also suitable arrangement flower diameter and in the woods, wet meadow at the edge of cluster planting, the landscape is very effective.