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Dicentra is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
 flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the family Fumariaceae
Fumariaceae

Fumariaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by a fair number of taxonomists: it is sometimes called the "Fumitory family"....
, native to Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
. The common name, bleeding heart, is used for many of the species. This name comes from the appearance of the pink flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
, which resembles the shape of a heart with a drop of blood descending. All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested.








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Dicentra is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
 flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the family Fumariaceae
Fumariaceae

Fumariaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by a fair number of taxonomists: it is sometimes called the "Fumitory family"....
, native to Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
. The common name, bleeding heart, is used for many of the species. This name comes from the appearance of the pink flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
, which resembles the shape of a heart with a drop of blood descending. All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested.

Species

  • Dicentra burmanica K.R.Stern
  • Dicentra canadensis
    Dicentra canadensis

    Dicentra canadensis, or squirrel corn, is a wildflower in the family Fumariaceae found in the Great Smoky Mountains. This plant is used as a ornamental plant....
     (Goldie) Walp. - Squirrel-corn
  • Dicentra chrysantha
    Dicentra chrysantha

    Dicentra chrysantha is a species of flowering plant in the Fumariaceae, a family of showy wildflowers often treated as just separate from the Papaveraceae, the poppies....
     (Hook. & Arn.) Walp. - Golden Ear-drops
  • Dicentra cucullaria
    Dicentra cucullaria

    Dicentra cucullaria is a flowering plant in the family Fumariaceae, native to North America. It occurs mainly in the eastern half of the continent, from Nova Scotia and southern Quebec west to eastern North Dakota, and south to northern Georgia and eastern Oklahoma; there is also a disjunct population in Idaho, Oregon and Washington....
     (L.) Bernh. - Dutchman's-breeches
  • Dicentra eximia
    Dicentra eximia

    Dicentra eximia is a flowering plant in the family Fumariaceae, native to North America. It occurs mainly in the southeastern half of the continent, from Pennsylvania south to Georgia ....
     (Ker-Gawl.) Torr. - Wild Bleedinghearts, Fringed Bleeding Heart
  • Dicentra formosa
    Dicentra formosa

    Western Bleeding Heart is a flowering plant in the genus Dicentra, generally found in moist wooded areas from California to British Columbia....
     (Haw.) Walp. - Western or Pacific Bleeding Heart
    • Dicentra formosa
      Dicentra formosa

      Western Bleeding Heart is a flowering plant in the genus Dicentra, generally found in moist wooded areas from California to British Columbia....
       subsp. formosa
    • Dicentra formosa
      Dicentra formosa

      Western Bleeding Heart is a flowering plant in the genus Dicentra, generally found in moist wooded areas from California to British Columbia....
       subsp. oregona
  • Dicentra lachenaliaeflora Ledeb.
  • Dicentra lichiangensis Fedde
    Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde

    Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde was a German botanist....
  • Dicentra macrocapnos D.Prain
  • Dicentra nevadensis
    Dicentra nevadensis

    Dicentra nevadensis is a species of flowering plant in Dicentra, the genus containing the bleeding-hearts. Its common names include Sierra bleeding-heart and Tulare County bleeding-heart....
     Eastw. - Sierran Bleedinghearts
  • Dicentra ochroleuca
    Dicentra ochroleuca

    Dicentra ochroleuca is a species of Dicentra known by the common names yellow bleeding heart and white eardrops. It is Endemism to California, where it grows in the coastal hills and mountains....
     Engelm.
  • Dicentra oregona Eastw.
  • Dicentra pauciflora
    Dicentra pauciflora

    Dicentra pauciflora is a species of flowering plant in Dicentra, the genus containing the bleeding-hearts. Its common names include shorthorn steer's head and few-flowered bleeding-heart....
     S. Wats. - Short-horn Steer's-head
  • Dicentra paucinervia K.R.Stern
  • Dicentra peregrina (Rudolphi) Makino
  • Dicentra pusilla Siebold & Zucc.
  • Dicentra roylei Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Dicentra scandens Walp.
  • Dicentra schneideri Fedde
    Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde

    Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde was a German botanist....
  • Dicentra spectabilis
    Dicentra spectabilis

    Dicentra spectabilis also known as Venus's car, bleeding heart, Dutchman's trousers, or lyre flower, is a perennial plant herbaceous plant native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan....
     (L.) Lem. - Bleeding Heart
  • Dicentra thalictrifolia Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Dicentra torulosa Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Dicentra uniflora
    Dicentra uniflora

    Dicentra uniflora is a species of flowering plant in Dicentra, the genus containing the bleeding-hearts. Its common names include longhorn steer's head and longhorn bleeding-heart....
     Kellogg - Long-horn Steer's-head
  • Dicentra ventii Khanh
  • Dicentra wolfdietheri Fedde


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