The Breathtaking Bleeding Heart

Yesterday Steve and I went on an outing with our photo club here in southern Oregon, and we went to an EMU RANCH!! I took a zillion pictures of the amazing birds, but I also went crazy taking pictures around the immaculately tended gardens. One of my favorite flowers is a Bleeding Heart, and when I saw these, I just about did backflips all over the yard! When I got home, I looked through my pictures and when I saw this one, I was so happy that I had to process it immediately because it turned out so nicely! I feel so happy to have gotten the chance to take pictures of this lovely flower at its peak of beauty!!

The Old-Fashioned Bleeding Heart is native to eastern Asia from Siberia to Japan and grows from late spring to early summer. Contact with this flower can sometimes cause skin irritation, so best not to touch! :) Interestingly, this plant was once classified in a different genus (Dicentra), and certainly looks similar to the Western Bleeding Heart that I have seen, but it's different enough that it was reclassified.

If you would like to know more about Old-Fashioned Bleeding Hearts, Wiki has a page here: Wiki: Old-Fashioned Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)

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