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Papaveraceae
Lyre Flower
Lamprocapnos spectabilis
Unconditional love, compassion, and heartfelt emotion.
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Genus
- Lamprocapnos
- Native to
- eastern Asia, China, Korea, Japan
- Bloom season
- Spring, Early Summer
- Type
- herbaceous perennial
- Height
- 60–90 cm
- Sunlight
- part shade
- Soil
- moist, humus-rich, well-drained
- Water
- medium
- Hardiness
- 3–9
- Lifespan
- perennial; long-lived
Did you know
- Also known as bleeding heart, each flower resembles a heart with a drop falling from it.
- The plant was reclassified from Dicentra to Lamprocapnos in 2011 based on molecular evidence.
- Robert Fortune first brought it to England from the island of Chusan in 1846, causing a garden sensation.
- If you pull the outer petals apart, the inner structure looks like a lady in a bathtub — a classic parlor trick.
- The entire plant goes dormant and disappears by midsummer, earning the Japanese name 'sleeping beauty'.
Color meanings
Pink
romantic love and tenderness
White
pure and unconditional love
Red
deep passionate love