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Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba'

White Common Bleeding Heart, White Dutchman's Breeches

These shade-loving perennials are popular because of their fine-textured fernlike foliage and heart-shaped flowers. Bleeding Hearts require rich, moist, well-drained soil and are excellent companion plants with begonias, columbines, epimediums, ferns, fuchsias, hellebores, primroses and other woodland plants. In mild climate regions of the country they become short-lived perennials.
Dicentra spectabilis, White Common Bleeding Heart, White Dutchman's Breeches
Spectacular stalks of pendulous white flowers rise above fernlike foliage. Goes dormant in summer and is not as vigorous-growing as the pink-flowering species.

Attributes - Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba'

Plant Type: Perennial

Bloom Season: Late Spring through Early Summer

Flower Color: White

Foliage: Deciduous

Height: 2 ft. to 3 ft.

Width: 1 ft. 6 in.

Sunlight: Partial Sun, Shade

Climate: Zones 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Notes: Cut Flowers, Showy Flowers. Susceptible to Root Rot.

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Dicentra x 'Luxuriant', Dicentra 'Zestful', Dicentra eximia, Dicentra eximia 'Snowdrift', Dicentra spectabilis
 
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