[2] Leaves are finely divided and gray-green, growing from the base of the plant.

Flowers are pink and bloom in tight clusters at the top of leafless, fleshy stems above the leaves from mid-spring to autumn.

The two outer petals are pouched at the base and bent back at the tips.

It has wider, more rounded flowers with shorter wings on the outer petals (see the photo below).

Fringed bleeding-heart is native to the Appalachians from southwestern Pennsylvania south to Tennessee and North Carolina.