General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4b -31.7 °C (-25 °F) to -28.9 °C (-20 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8a
Plant Height: 10 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Semi-evergreen
Other: pinkish maroon mottling on spring foliage
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on new wood
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Pink/yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: May 7, 2016
An E. x versicolor cultivar, close up of inner sepals blushed pin
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: May 14, 2015
Bromze spring foliage, broad sepals appear pale yellow from above
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: May 10, 2017
Detail of blooms (pale yellow flowers on left are a different cul
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: May 10, 2017
side view showing aspect of flowers, buds, new spring foliage

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