Botanical Name: Dicentra 'Luxuriant'
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Common Name: Luxuriant Bleeding Heart  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Perennial

 

Height Range

Under 1', 1-3'

 

Flower Color

Pink

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green, Blue Green, Grey Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

  • Notes

'Luxuriant' is a cultivar of fern-leaf dicentra. It has the same, charming, May-time heart-shaped flowers of soft pink, arrayed along a stem like so much elfin laundry. The foliage is a blue-green to grey green, and is deeply toothed and ferny and forms a mound about 12 to 18 inches tall and wide. But after flowering, unlike some bleeding heart, this foliage remains attractive all summer long, and is a lovely contrast to other shady border denizens like hosta, bergenia, and seslaria.