| Scientific Name: | Epimedium x cantabrigiense |
| Common Name: | 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 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Leathery, Pubescent, Leaflets stalked, Ovate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, Pink, Red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, biternate, leaflets pinnately compound, pinnae ovate, most blades 5-7cm long x 3-5cm wide, base cordate-sagittate, margin spinose, reddish in spring, tinted bronze in fall; flowers 1-1.5cm wide, spurless, yellow and tinged pinkish-beige, April-May. | |