What is a bleeding heart?
Dicentra is called a bleeding heart in English, a broken heart in Russian, Jannetta's heart in French, a flower of the heart in German… All these names reflect an unusual shape of the flower – it resembles a small pink or red heart split into two halves. Unpretentious Dicentra can decorate any flowerbed with its delicate blossoms and carved tender fern-like leaves.
The flower came to Europe from Japan as far back as the beginning of the 19th century. The genus of Dicentra includes about 20 species of annual and perennial herbs which may be found in damp mountainous or sylvan areas across North America and East Asia.
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103 Comments
Jerome D. Bender
They couldn't show us a picture of the flower?
By the way, I got it correct, but I want to see if it's the flower I'm thinking of.
Chris Hall
A bleeding heart is a sympathizer..
hazelphyllis
Jerome D. Bender, wouldnt that have given away the answer? Then someone would have complained about that!
Sybilla
Marge Cromack, thank you for the information.
Sybilla
I had no idea. I was looking for political correctness or something akin.
joycekingsmith
Todd Freeman, aw, come on, man! Don't make this political.
Mayflower
Dicentra Spectabilis, or something of the sort.
kathyayoung
How about a photo??.???
jojodamico
Had Bleeding Hearts in my garden, next to Lily of the Valley. Both very delicate flowers!
earlepg
Kristen Richardson, Sure would have been too easy; food, nail polish and illness would obviously have been eliminated as answers.
Todd Van Dell
Not MIST.
That was autocorrect's fault.
Todd Van Dell
Most of us.
Not most.
Sorry. Typo.
Todd Van Dell
silrem,
Mist if us liberals have hearts.
If we're bleeding hearts because we care more about humanity than money?
Then I'm proud to be a bleeding heart.
You conservative Republicunts should try finding your own hearts.
Heh.
Yeah right.
You'd have to actually HAVE a heart in the first place, in order for you to find yours.
But since all you love is money money money, there's no room in your "souls" for a heart.
stellaclaude
Jerome D. Bender, they’re more like little vines with little hearts attached. So pretty!
jack patti go
Missed it!
Marge Cromack
Bleeding heart is a shrub that has heart shaped flower with darker red tendrils hanging from the heart, if u haven’t already Google Bleeding Heart