Bleeding heart explained

Bleeding heart may refer to:

Flowering plants

• Bleeding-heart, perennial herbaceous plants of the family Papaveraceae, including:
  • Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis), a popular garden plant with arching sprays of pendent red and white (or pure white) flowers
  • Dicentra, a genus native to eastern Asia and North America
  • Ehrendorferia, also known as eardrops
  • Dactylicapnos, herbaceous climbers
• Bleeding-heart, flowering shrubs, lianas, or small trees of the mint family Lamiaceae, in the genus Clerodendrum (also called glorybowers or bagflowers)
• Bleeding heart tree (Homalanthus populifolius), of the family Euphorbiaceae, an Australian rainforest plant, also known as Queensland poplar

Music

• A Bleeding Heart, a 2003 EP by New Zealand band the Bleeders
• Bleeding Heart (album), a 1994 posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix
• "Bleeding Heart" (song), a 1965 Elmore James song
• "Bleeding Heart Disease" (song), a song by NOFX from the 1996 album Heavy Petting Zoo
• "Bleeding Heart", a song by the Brazilian metal band Angra, from the EP Hunters and Prey
• "Bleeding Heart", a song by the German power metal band Freedom Call from the album Eternity
• The Bleeding Heart Band, the backing band for Roger Waters for a brief period of his post-Pink Floyd solo career

Other uses

• Bleeding Heart (film), a 2015 American film
• Bleeding-hearts, doves in the genus Gallicolumba
• Bleeding heart tetra, Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma
• Bleeding Heart Yard, a courtyard in London, England
• Bleeding Hearts, a 1994 crime novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey
• "Bleeding Heart", an episode of season 2 of The Mentalist

See also

• Bleeding-heart libertarianism (or liberalism)
• Catholic iconography:
  • Sacred heart of Christ, often depicted bleeding
  • Heart of the virgin Mary, often depicted bleeding
• Heartbleed (disambiguation)