Red Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat

Epimedium rubrum

Red Barrenwort is a shade loving semi-evergreen herbaceous  perennial with toothed green heart-shaped foliage that emerges with red tints and turns completely red in fall.  Nodding crimson flowers with short creamy spurs bloom in spring.  Thrives in shade and dry to medium, well-drained acidic soils.  Drought tolerant once established.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance.  Mosaic virus the main disease, but otherwise little problems.  Cut back any surviving winter foliage in late winter before new growth emerges.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings,  Borders,  Woodland Garden,  Rock Gardens,  Groundcover, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:  Japanese Spurge,  Baby’s Breath,  Echinacea

IMAGES: Salicyna,  Epimedium rubrum 2016-04-22 8648,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (2)  Peter coxhead,  Epimedium x rubrum 2013-05-10,  CC BY-SA 3.0, (3)  peganum from Small Dole, England,  Epimedium x rubrum - Flickr - peganum (1),  CC BY-SA 2.0, (4)  Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova,  Epimedium x rubrum Epimedium czerwone 2018-04-15 02,  CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.