Judging by the amount of plants that did bloom after the fire, the charred earth must have been chock full of their seeds. Their dried stalks persisted thru into 2021. From the spring of 2019 thru the spring of 2020 these flowers covered the slopes of the areas burned by the Woolsey Fire. Lastly, this plant is endemic to California - it grows nowhere else!įire Response: Smoke - or at least some chemical in smoke causes germination to occur. Mugu State Park) all the way to the summit of Boney Mountain! I saw this plant in late June while hiking Upper Sycamore Canyon in Look for this in the canyon bottoms of Sycamore and Blue Canyon (Pt.

This plant blooms well after the first flowers of Spring - May to June. The bright red color in the petal is a draw for Hummingbirds. Joined at the tip that have the red filling. The flowers on this perennial herb are white with a beautiful filling of red - it is the two inner petals which are After a couple of years we are unlikely to see this plant until the next fire. Plant back from seeds stored in the soil.

This member of the Poppy family is a fire-follower and does not germinate without being exposed to smoke. Ehrendorferia ochroleuca is associated with a few common names - white bleeding hearts, yellow bleeding hearts or my preference fire heart.

Wild bleeding heart bloom