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Dicentra nevadensis is a species of flowering plant in Dicentra, the genus containing the bleeding-hearts. Its common names include Sierra bleeding-heart and Tulare County bleeding-heart. This wildflower is endemic to California, where it is known only from gravelly outcroppings in the Sierra Nevada peaks of Tulare and Fresno Counties. The plant has a short stem, and becomes visible as bunches of long petioles emerging from the ground, each with a leaf highly divided into lobes and pointy leaflets. Alongside the leaves are tall flower clusters, each holding a dangling bunch of dull whitish, pinkish, or yellowish-brown bleeding-heart flowers. Each hanging flower has a pair of curving petals which curl back to reveal the looping inner petals. When dried, the flowers turn black. The fruit is a capsule one or two centimeters long. This species is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the western bleeding-heart, Dicentra formosa.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

8 - 18 in Tall

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Color

Pink, Yellow, White, Brown, Black

Sun

Full Sun

Water

High, Moderate

Soil drainage

Fast

Sunset Zones

15

Site type

Gravelly places

Plant communities

Subalpine Forest

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 1 likely

Confirmed Likely

Clodius Parnassian

Parnassius clodius