General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 10 to 15 inches (25-38cm)
Plant Spread: 8 to 20 inches (20-50cm)
Leaves: Semi-evergreen
Other: Deciduous in zones 5-6.
Flowers: Showy
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Erosion control
Groundcover
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Tolerates dry shade

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Common names
  • Bishop's Hat
  • Longspur Epimedium
  • Barrenwort
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Epimedium grandiflorum
  • Synonym: Epimedium grandiflorum f. violaceum
  • Synonym: Epimedium versicolor
  • Synonym: Epimedium grandiflorum var. higoense

Photo Gallery
Location: Toronto Ontario Canada
Date: 2002 June
Epimedium grandiflorum   in bloom
Location: Toronto Ontario Canada
Date: 2002   July 
Epimedium grandiflorum   Still blooming for one month leaves star

Date: c. 1840
illustration of Epimedium grandiflorum as E. violaceum by Miss Dr
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: Apr 2, 2010 11:28 AM
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2006-04-24
Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-17
In a friends garden
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: April 16, 2012
Close-up of flowers, details of sepals and spurs
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: Apr 13, 2010 11:00 AM
Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-17
In a friends garden
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: April 30, 2010
This variety has small leaflets banded with a darker color
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: April 16, 2012
This variety has small leaflets banded with a darker color, flowe
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: April 21, 2012
This variety has small leaflets banded with a darker color
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