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: 9 to 18 inches (20-45cm)
Leaves: Good fall color
Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Lavender
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Erosion control
Groundcover
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Tolerates dry shade
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Bishop's Hat
  • Barrenwort
  • Longspur Epimedium
  • Fairy Wings
Also sold as:
  • 'Lilac Fairy'

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Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2015-04-24
Location: West Jefferson, North Carolina
Date: 2023-04-20
Uploaded by dirtdorphins
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar BC
Date: 2016-05-03
 3:16 pm. A very sweet little Epimedium.
Location: Tawas Michigan under the Pines
Location: Tawas Michigan under the Pines

Date: 2012-04-15
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-12
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2006-05-07
Location: Litchfield, NH
Date: 2013-05-04
Flowers just opening on 1st year flowering
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 2009-04-11
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 2009-04-11
Location: SunZone 6a
Date: 2016-05-11

Flowering habit.
Location: Dappled shade Z6
Date: 2011-05-12
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-29
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 2009-04-11

Photo courtesy of Joy Creek Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: SunZone 6a
Date: 2013-05-08
With Hellebore
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26
Location: National Botanical Garden, DC, Virginia :) | May, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-05-03
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 2009-04-11
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 4-2009
Location: Bordine's Greenhouse, Brighton, MI
Date: 2009-04-11

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-04-26
maroonish leaves in early spring
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Date: 2007-06-01
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-05-05
Location: z6
Date: 2011-05-19
Location: Dappled shade Z6
Date: 2011-05-19

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-29
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