EPIMEDIUM (Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat)

A nice, dense groundcover for dry shade, Epimedium features attractive heart-shaped leaves with dainty, star-like flowers.  Slow to establish, divide it in early spring before new growth appears.
EPIMEDIUM alpinum 'Rubrum'

Barrenwort

Flowers: red Height: 8-12"
A delicate yet tough plant, 'Rubrum' features rosy-red and creamy-yellow flowers that hang from wiry stems in May amid delicate apple-green foliage that is tinted with red and bronze.  The foliage will mature to a medium green.
#16362
#1 container Part shadeMostly shade
EPIMEDIUM grandiflorum 'Lilafee'

Barrenwort

Flowers: lavender Height: 12"
Early in the spring, spikes of purple spider-like flowers emerge making a great contrast to the bronze-purple new leaves that will fade to a dark green.  A perfect plant for naturalizing in the woodland garden.
#15789

 

#1 container Part shadeMostly shade
EPIMEDIUM versicolor 'Sulphureum'

Barrenwort

Flowers: yellow Height: 8-12"
Light yellow and white flowers appear in May and contrast nicely with the apple green foliage of delicate leaves tinted with red in spring before maturing to a medium green.
#15285

 

#1 container Part shadeMostly shade
EPIMEDIUM youngianum 'Niveum'

Barrenwort

Flowers: starry, pure white Height: 6-12"
This small, compact plant produces dainty, starry, pure white flowers that appear in May over delicate mounds of apple-green foliage.
#13939

 

#1 container Part shadeMostly shade
 

 
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