Dutchman's breeches

Here's a lovely little mound of DIcentra cucullaria​ blooming beside a daffodil (probably Ice Follies). The lobed petals do look like white breeches billowing on a clothes line, don't they? I find the repetition of form and color in such diverse scale — between the little Dicentra flowers and the larger Narcissus petals — interesting.

These are near the Hippo playground in RIverside Park, and are part of a native planting I installed there a few years back. (No, Narcissus is not native to North America, but it's pretty, it was already there, and it plays well with our spring ephemerals; so why not leave it?)

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