Plant Library

Bleeding Heart Fire Island

Common Name: Bleeding Heart

Botanical Name: Dicentra

Variety: Fire Island

Blossom Color: Red

Bloom Time: May-Aug

Zone: 3 to 9

Exposure: Sun/Pt Sh

Mature Height: 12-15"

Mature Width: N/A

Notes: More vigorous and disease resistant, earlier flowering, and heavier crop of sterile blossoms compared to ‘Burning Hearts’. Sun loving alpine. Magenta red, heart-shaped flowers apprear for months. Finely textured, frosty blue foliage. Cut. Hummingbirds. Deer resistant. Zone 3-9.