Dicentra

Glabrous annual or perennial herbs with rhizomes, taproots, tubers or bulbets; stems usually erect, or scrambling. Leaves basal or cauline, 1–4-pinnate. Inflorescence an axillary, leaf opposed or terminal raceme, panicle or cyme, or solitary flower. Pedicles long, subtended by a bract; bracteoles usually present. Flowers disymetric (with 2 distinct planes of symmetry); sepals 2, caducous; petals 4, connate, in 2 series, the outer 2 petals enlarged, sometimes basally spurred, the inner 2 petals clawed, ± spathulate; style persistent, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a dehiscent or indehiscent capsule; seeds few–many.