Lilafee Bishop's Hat

Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'

Lilafee Bishop's Hat is a shade loving semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with toothed green foliage that emerges a red tinted beige and turns fully red in fall.  Nodding lilac-pink flowers 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: Photo by David J. Stang,  Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 1zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Leonora (Ellie) Enking,  Epimedium 'Lilafee', (3) cultivar413,  160430 095 The High Line Falcone Flyover, (4) Photo by David J. Stang,  Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 5zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (5) Photo by David J. Stang,  Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 2zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0

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