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Dicentra eximia
Also called Wild Bleeding Heart, Staggerweed, Fringed Bleeding Heart, Yellow Bloodwood
Dicentra eximia, commonly called wild or fringed bleeding-heart or turkey-corn, is a native Appalachian perennial with fern-like gray-green foliage and pink, heart-shaped flowers from spring to autumn. It grows best in cool, moist, well-drained woodland conditions.
Dicentra eximia (wild or fringed bleeding-heart, turkey-corn) is a flowering plant with fernlike leaves and oddly shaped flowers native to the Appalachian Mountains. It is similar to the Pacific bleeding-heart (Dicentra formosa), which grows on the Pacific Coast. Dicentra eximia is a perennial herb in the Papaveraceae family.
Fringed bleeding-heart is native to the Appalachians from southwestern Pennsylvania south to Tennessee and North Carolina. It typically grows in rocky woodland at an altitude of 330 to 5,575 ft (100 to 1,700 m). It is known as a pollinator plant that attracts hummingbirds and bees.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicentra eximia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
