Dicentra formosa or the Wild bleeding Heart is an attractive perennial that spreads quickly by rhizomes.
It forms a mass of low growing basal leaves that are mid-green and deeply lobed.
From spring to summer arching flower stems emerge from the basal leaves, standing well above the foliage, and dainty, pendulous racemes of tube-like flowers are borne on these.
It is very frost hardy and the foliage dies back to ground level after flowering.
They grow best in cooler climates.