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: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Ground cover, Woodland margin
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich
Leaves: Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Biternate, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Raceme, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Aborted (hybrids) or absent
Key ID Features:
Leaves compound with triangular to heart shaped leaflets; flowers white to pink.