Epimedium leptorrhizum Clumping Bamboo The foliage color of peacock

The foliage color of peacock spikemoss fern makes an amazing foil for a number of other plants

We love scattering these 2' wide clumpers throughout the woodland garden as a background for hostas and other bold textured woodland plants

the very floriferous clumps produce 14" tall alien-like

which are pollinated by nocturnal moths

Why is it that so many sky-blue flowers are only open in the morning

Epimedium leptorrhizum Clumping Bamboo The foliage color of peacockEpimedium leptorrhizum hails from Guizhou and Sichuan, China. This little known species that is essentially a dwarf, running Epimedium brachyrrhizum. Spreading by slender rhizomes (leptos = slender), Epimedium leptorrhizum can expand by 8" per year. The 8" tall clump is topped in late March (NC) with short flower spikes of large, pink lavender flowers, often with contrasting lighter purple spurs. Epimedium leptorrhizum prefers not to get bone dry for