Pacific Bleeding Hearts
These native beauties are very common in the springtime in the Pacific Northwest and can be found in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia anywhere with moist soil and lots of shade. One interesting feature of the Pacific bleeding heart is how it is spread. The one to two inch pod contains large black seeds with a bit of white fat attached to each one. Ants love this fat, and carry the seeds away. When the seed is discarded, it has a chance to grow in a new location! These were found growing in an old coniferous forest near Deep Lake in Enumclaw, Washington.
- Copyright
- ©2016
- Image Size
- 4000x6000 / 13.5MB
- Keywords
-
Angiosperms, D. formosa, Deep Lake, Dicentra, Dicentra formosa, Enumclaw, Eudicots, Fumariaceae, Fumarieae, Fumarioideae, King County, Nolte State Park, Pacific bleeding heart, Pacific bleeding-heart, Pacific bleedinghearts, Papaveraceae, Plantae, Ranunculales, Washington, beautiful, beauty, bleeding heart, bleeding-heart, bleedingheart, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, fern-leaf bleeding heart, fern-leaf bleedingheart, flora, flower, flowers, forb, forest, fresh, green, herb, native, natural, nature, old growth forest, perennial, pink, plant, plants, purple, spring, state park, western bleeding heart, western bleedingheart, wild, wild bleeding heart, wildflower, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Pink Wildflowers, Papaveraceae (Poppies)
