Dicentra cucullaria - pink forms
Russell Stafford, Odyssey Bulbs (Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:36:01 PDT)

Flora North America notes that pink-suffused D. cucullaria are common, but
noticeably pink forms are rare in these parts. This spring in the nearby
woods I found (and marked for later reference) a clump with quite
definitely pale-pink flowers. The same woods also has a colony of D.
cucullaria which have pink-blotched white flowers. You can find a lot of
other variants of this species in such characteristics as flower size; the
length and angle of the basal spurs; the number of flowers per scape; the
amount of yellow at the flowers' apex, etc.

I've never heard of the cultivar 'Pittsburgh'.

Leaf color also shows quite a bit of variation in the two native
dicentras. Some populations -- particularly of D. canadensis -- have
extremely glaucous foliage.

So far this spring the star of the local wildflower show has been
Erythronium americanum. For some reason, at least twice as many are in
flower this year as in any other spring in my memory.

Russell
Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA, USDA zone 6

At 11:42 AM 4/18/2004 -0800, you wrote:

Russell Stafford
Odyssey Bulbs
8984 Meadow Lane, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103
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