| Scientific Name: | Epimedium 'Amber Queen' |
| Common Name: | Amber Queen barrenwort |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Leathery, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Orange, Yellow, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, biternate, leaflets pinnately compound, pinnae ovate-lanceolate, 6-9cm long x 3-5cm wide, base cordate, margin spinose; flowers appear pale orangish from a distance but each long, yellow spur has a reddish base, Apr-May. | |