Alkaloids negatively affect animals, most commonly cattle, sheep, and dogs. Although aesthetically pleasing, this plant contains soquinoline alkaloids. Bleeding Heart plants are not only toxic to humans but to animals as well. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling. If ingested, all parts may cause stomach upset, the foliage may aggravate skin allergies.Propagate by seed, sowing seeds as soon as ripe or in spring. Propagate by division in early spring or after the leaves have died down.Great for beds and borders, cottage gardens, rock gardens, underplanting shrubs or as a groundcover.It can be grown in full sun in the coolest part of its range provided the soil is kept consistently moist. Thrives in part shade and is easily grown in fertile, humus-rich, neutral or slightly alkaline, moist, well-drained soils.Will self-seed readily and spread by rhizomes to form colonies. Wild Pacific Bleeding Heart, 20+ Seeds Lamprocapnos formosa (western, wild or Pacific bleeding heart) is a flowering plant with fern-like leaves and an inflorescence of drooping pink flowers native to the Pacific Coast of North America. A reliable performer that is excellent for rock gardens or as a groundcover. Flowering will stop in the heat of the summer and may start again in late summer to early fall. Blooming from early spring to mid-summer, the flowers dangle gracefully above the lush foliage mound. Up to 10 flowers occur on a one-sided inflorescence. Habitat: cool shady areas similar to open forest moist average soil in spring drought tolerant in summer deer, pest and disease proof blooms long time great maintenance free ground cover.Native to western North America, Dicentra formosa (Pacific Bleeding Heart) is a wide-spreading rhizomatous perennial adorned with a gray-green, finely divided foliage and short racemes of nodding, heart-shaped, pink flowers flushed with lavender. Press seed into moist medium surface freeze (plastic jar is perfect) for 6 weeks. Not for high traffic areas as plant is easily damaged.

Much loved by bumblebees and despite it being out in the open, deer and rabbits are not tempted to nibble on it. By fall nothing remains except for the pink fleshy rhizomes that lay just under the soil surface. By mid summer the plant goes into dormancy. Even as seed capsules ripen, the pink flowers persist. Freshly harvested seeds, this season Bleeding heart are a very easy and beautiful hardy perennials for the mainly-shaded garden, and do well even in dry. Mid pink bleeding heart shaped flowers barely hover over the soft dissected foliage. In mid March the plant slowly erupts from dormancy to unfurl leaves and flowers.

Wild bleeding heart seeds