Gold Heart Bleeding Heart

Dicentra spectabilis 'Gold Heart'

Gold Heart Bleeding Heart is a shade-loving herbaceous  perennial with bright golden yellow to chartreuse compound leaves on reddish stems.  Nodding puffed pink heart shaped flowers with protruding white inner petals bloom on long leaning stems in spring before the foliage emerges.  Flowers best in  part shade and consistently moist rich well-drained acidic soils.  Foliage goes dormant in summer.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance.  Intolerant of wet soils in winter and dry soils in summer.  Some susceptibility to aphids.

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 David J. Stang,  Dicentra spectabilis Gold Heart 4zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (2)  AnitaBeimert,  Tränendes Herz,  CC BY-SA 3.0, (3) Photo by David J. Stang,  Dicentra spectabilis Gold Heart 1zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (4) Photo by David J. Stang,  Dicentra spectabilis Gold Heart 3zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0

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