Which species of bleeding heart?

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  1. rpphoto

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    I know this is bleeding heart, but Wikipedia (that fount of all trustworthy knowledge <sarcasm>) tells me there are some 20 species of Dicentra, many of which are commonly called bleeding heart. That's at least believable, though I'm not sure how accurate. Anyway, I can't tell which of those species I captured in this photo (taken on the campus of Seattle Pacific University this past May). Can anyone help?
     

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    Thanks! Yeah, I saw that web page when I was looking for the species, but it was such terrible resolution that I couldn't be sure. I didn't upload a hi-res version of my photo either, but it's got a bit of yellow on the center of the white part, which I didn't see mentioned on that site, or anywhere else for that matter. I'm adding a close-up image of that. Interestingly, for all my belittling of it earlier, Wikipedia has a better photo of this species, which confirms your ID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicentra_spectabilis
     

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