| Scientific Name: | Epimedium x youngianum |
| Common Name: | barrenwort |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Rock garden, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Biternate, Leaflets stalked, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, biternate, leaflets pinnately compound, pinnae ovate-deltoid, most 5-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, base cordate, red tinged in spring, and deep red in fall, margin spinose; raceme, flowers with 4 white to pink petals, some cvs. short-spurred. | |