someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
disapproval If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help. I'm not a bleeding heart liberal. someone who feels sympathy for poor people or criminals, in a way that you think is not practical or helpful. Any of several species of Dicentra, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae). The old garden favourite is the Japanese D. spectabilis, which has small rosy-red and white, heart-shaped flowers dangling from arching stems. The eastern, or wild, bleeding heart (D. eximia) produces sprays of small pink flowers from April to September in the Allegheny Mountains region of the U.S. The Pacific, or western, bleeding heart (D. formosa), ranging from California to British Columbia, has several varieties of garden interest