| Scientific Name: | Epimedium x perralchicum |
| Common Name: | yellow epimedium, barrenwort, hybrid bishop's hat |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, biternate, leaflets pinnately compound, pinnae ovate, most blades 5-8cm long x 3-5cm wide, base cordate, with bronze colouring in spring and fall; flowers bright yellow 2-3cm wide with short brown spurs, Apr-May. | |