Dicentra

Dicentra: A Must-have for Flower Lovers

Dicentra, also known as bleeding heart, is a beautiful perennial that thrives in shade. In fact, it’s often grown in woodland gardens and other shady plantings. Dicentra has several common names: bleeding heart, deer tongue, wild bleeding heart and ghost fern. This lovely plant is native to North America, where it grows in the cool, humid forests of the Pacific Northwest and Eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains.