![]() Your plant might be adapting to the changing climate. So maybe, just maybe, if you could swear that your blossoms were a much paler shade of pink a long time ago, it might not just be your imagination. Professor Mathew Kloski, Drew MacQueen, and Tai-Lynn Ashman at the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University found that dozens of species, and particularly those with exposed anthers, have become more pigmented over the past few decades. Description: Lacy light green foliage on a compact mound with delicate, white dangling heart-shaped flowers on nodding stems, like little jewels in the. Some flowers are becoming darker to adapt to climate change and the changing levels of UV exposure, as a study published in Current Biology in 2020 showed. ![]() It’s sort of like putting out a welcome sign for pollinators and switching it over to “closed” once a bee or butterfly has visited.īut again, this doesn’t apply to plants in the Dicentra or Lamprocapnos genera. Other flowers will change hue depending on whether they’ve been pollinated or not. They don’t tend to fade as they mature and they aren’t grown on a different type of rootstock as grafted plants. They stay the same color, even when the soil pH or temperature changes. But none of these situations apply to bleeding hearts.
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