About Dicentra peregrina (Rudolph) Makino
This species, Dicentra peregrina (Rudolph) Makino, is commonly known as komakusa. Its leaves are gray-green, glaucous, and deeply cut into linear lobes. Each flower has four petals, which can be rose-purple, pink, cream, pale yellow, or white, plus two tiny sepals. The outer petals are pouched at the base and strongly bent backward at their ends. The inner petals are long and protruding, and connected to each other at the end. Komakusa grows in Japan, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island, and northeastern Siberia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula. It prefers gravelly high-altitude soil up to 3,350 m (10,990 ft) in alpine tundra.
