| Scientific Name: | Dicentra eximia |
| Common Name: | fringed bleeding heart |
| Family Name: | Papaveraceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Dissected, Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Bipinnate, Ovate, Incised, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | White, Pink, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Similar to D. formosa but has narrower, less rounded flowers with longer wings on the outer petals and can flower from spring to fall; leaves finely divided into leaflets and lobes, gray-green, mostly 20-35cm long x 10-15cm wide. | |