Wild Bleeding Heart - Dicentra eximia

Lavender, nodding, heart-shaped flowers located above the foliage on long, leafless, leaning stems. The flower's inner petals protrude and look like a drop of blood at the bottom of each heart-shaped flower. Leaves are deeply cut and fern-like.

Habitat: Moist, rocky forest

**I think this flower may have been the victim of a nectar robber (note the hole on the top left). Nectar robbers take nectar from flowers without pollinating them...Instead, they circumvent the floral opening by cutting a hole in the flower and thus remove nectar without contacting the anthers and/or stigma.