Dicentra canadensis
Conservation status
Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Genus:	Dicentra
Species:	D. canadensis
Binomial name
Dicentra canadensis (L.)Bernh.

Dicentra canadensis, thesquirrel corn,^[2] is aflowering plant from eastern North America with oddly shaped white flowers and finely divided leaves.

Squirrel corn has small yellow clusteredbulblets (looking roughly like kernels ofcorn), finely dissectedleaves, and white heart-shapedflowers. The flowers are fragrant.^[3] It is aspring ephemeral, leafing out and flowering in spring and goingdormant in summer.

It is native todeciduouswoodland in easternNorth America. It is also found among rock outcrops near mountains.^[4]

Wikispecies has information related toDicentra canadensis.

• Blanchan, Neltje (1917) [Originally published in 1900 asNature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors].Wild Flowers Worth Knowing. Adapted from Blanchan'sNature's Garden by Asa Don Dickinson. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Retrieved18 January 2024 – viaProject Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.^{[page needed]}
• Bleeding hearts, Corydalis, and their relatives. Mark Tebbitt, Magnus Lidén, and Henrik Zetterlund. Timber Press. 2008.ISBN 978-0881928822^{[page needed]}

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