![]() There are two tiny, pointed sepals behind the petals. The two inner petals are perpendicular to the outer petals and connected at the tip. The two outer petals form a pouch at the base and curve outwards at the tips. The four petals are attached at the base. The flowers are pink, red, or white and heart-shaped and bloom in clusters of 5 to 15 at the top of leafless, fleshy stems above the leaves from mid-spring to autumn, with peak flowering in spring. Its leaves are three to four times divided and fern-like, growing from a brittle rhizome at the base of the plant. Pacific bleeding-heart is a perennial herbaceous plant. Some people have been known to make a drink from the roots to treat syphilis (a disease) and cramps.Dicentra formosa ( western, wild or Pacific bleeding heart) is a flowering plant with fern-like leaves and an inflorescence of drooping pink, purple, yellow or cream flowers native to the Pacific Coast of North America. The roots can be used to make a drink that helps skin problems and other diseases. TRADITIONAL USES BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLESīleeding heart contains a poison that is dangerous to plants and animals, so not many people eat it. The seeds have rich oily parts that ants like to eat, so the ants spread the seeds throughout the forest. Bleeding heart also spreads from its thick stems. ![]() Ants like the oil in the seeds, and they carry them from the plant throughout the forest. LIFE CYCLEįlowers appear in spring to early summer, and they turn into seedpods full of black seeds. It lives in moist forests and woodlands, especially near stream banks. RANGE & HABITATīleeding heart grows from southern B.C., on the coast and near the Rocky Mountains, all the way down to California. The flowers look like pink and purple hearts, and grow in clusters at the end of a stem. The bleeding heart has long, soft and feathery leaves that grow in green stems at least 20 centimetres tall.
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