Luxuriant Bleeding Heart

Dicentra formosa 'Luxuriant'

Luxuriant Bleeding Heart is a compact herbaceous  perennial with deeply cut blue green leaves resembling ferns.  Nodding cherry red buds that open to dark reddish-pink heart shaped flowers with protruding inner petals bloom on long leaning stems in late spring and continues into summer if the summer is cool or stops  and rebloom from late summer into fall.  Flowers best in  part shade and consistently moist rich well-drained acidic soils.  

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance.  Intolerant of wet soils in winter and dry soils in summer.  Some susceptibility to aphids.  Powdery mildew, downy mildew, wilt, and rust may occur.  Watch for snails and slugs on new growth.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings,  Borders,  Woodland Gardens,  Naturalized Areas,  Wildlife Garden, Foundational Plantings, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:  Strawberry Foxglove ,  Lenten Rose,  Foam Flower

IMAGES: Photo by karen_hine, F ern-leaved bleeding heart (Dicentra eximia) Luxuriant, (2) Photo by David J. Stang,  Dicentra eximia Luxuriant 0zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.