Epimedium grandiflorum 'Dark Beauty' - LARGE-FLOWERED BARRENWORT 'DARK BEAUTY'

Cultivar with chocolate-purple spring leaves and large purple-white flowers. Leaves turn green in late spring.

12" tall x 16-18" wide, smaller and non-spreading clumps. Flowers in mid to late spring. Groundcovering mounds, leaves are semi-evergreen.

Half shade, dappled shade, light shade to deep shade. Average soil with some organic matter, average moisture (medium-moist or medium) to medium-dry. Soil should be slightly acidic to neutral.

Tolerates drier shade and black walnuts.

Deer and rabbits avoid it.

Hardy in zones 4/5 to 8.

Best is shade or half shade flower beds, woodland gardens, woodland edges, in front of shrubs, under canopy of trees, planted among tree roots in root zone.

Japanese Epimedium, potentially hybrid of Epimedium 'Yubae' and Epimedium 'Silver Queen', discovered Harold Epstein garden.

Good combos are with other shade tolerant perennials like Asarum, Bergenia, Brunnera, Caulophyllum, Chrysogonum, Dicentra, Geranium, Hosta, Iris cristata, I. tectorum, Kirengoshoma, Omphalodes, Polemonium, Phlox stolonifera, Phlox divaricata, Primula, Polygonatum, Pulmonaria, Stylophorum, Thalictrum, Tricyrtis, Waldsteinia and spring ephemerals like Claytonia, Mertensia, Jeffersonia, Podophyllum, Uvullaria, Trillium and grasses like Carex, Calamagrostis or Hakonechloa.

Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot

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