PlantSnap Photos of the Week 2020
Lamprocapnos spectabilis -- bleeding heart flower
This plant is a photo of a plant called Lamprocapnos spectabilis — bleeding heart flower.
Lamprocapnos spectabilis, the bleeding heart plant, is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan.
It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Lamprocapnos, but is still widely referenced under its old name Dicentra spectabilis (now listed as a synonym). It is valued in gardens and in floristry for its heart-shaped pink and white flowers, borne in spring.
Other common names include lyre flower, heart flower and lady-in-a-bath.
The Asian bleeding-heart grows to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 45 cm (18 in) wide. It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial with 3-lobed compound leaves on fleshy green to pink stems.
The arching horizontal racemes of up to 20 pendent flowers are borne in spring and early summer. The outer petals are bright fuchsia-pink, while the inner ones are white.
The flowers strikingly resemble the conventional heart shape, with a droplet beneath – hence the common name. The plant sometimes behaves as a spring ephemeral, going dormant in summer.
This PlantSnap Photos of the Week image gallery contains images captured by PlantSnappers from all around the world.
Each of these images have been chosen in the past as the PlantSnap Photo of the Week.
Each week, the new PlantSnap Photo of the Week will be added to this gallery.
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