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Epimedium ogisui

Barrenwort

Plant Type:

SHADE PERENNIALS

Epimedium ogisui – This fine species emerges red-purple with the maturing oval leaves settling back to a pleasing green, many displaying red-purple mottling. This beauty will form a ground cover with some alacrity. Its spring flowers are pure white. Open shade in fertile, moisture-retaining fertile soil. Nativitiy is Sichuan and three areas of the Shaanxi Provinces in China. Established, pot grown Ogisu's Fairy Wings from division.


Height:

6-12 in

Spread:

12-24 in

Colors:

White

Zone:

5 to 9
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Characteristics and Attributes for Epimedium ogisui

Season of Interest (Flowering)

  • Spring

Season of Interest (Foliage)

  • Spring / Summer / into Autumn

Nature Attraction

  • Butterflies
  • Deer Resistant
  • Honey Bees & Native Bees

Light

  • Shade
  • Dappled Shade

Attributes

  • Bank
  • Border
  • Ground Cover
  • Foundation
  • Woodland

Growth Rate in the Garden

  • Rapid

Soil

  • Fertile
  • Organic
  • Moist
  • Draining

Origins

  • China

Propagated By

  • Division

Genus Overview: Epimedium

The Barrenworts have received much attention in recent years and deservedly so. They come in many differently-colored flowering forms sporting delicate, dangling spider-like blossoms in spring. Some, as in E. sempervirens, are virtually evergreen; many others deciduous with delicate kidney-shaped leaves on wiry stems. The foliage on many cultivars in our USDA zone 5b (-15F) remains handsome until the winter solstice supplying 2 to 3 seasons of interest, some even provide golden to purple-bronze autumn tones. Slowly, gradually, they form a ground cover in part to full, open shade in fertile soil. The Barrenworts or Bishop Hats exhibit fair drought tolerance and are well-behaved members in part to open shade. They work well in herbaceous borders, woodland gardens or down-facing shrubs. Epimediums are members of the Berberidaceae and are of Asian origin. Once established they exhibit fair tolerance to dry shade. All of the following are pot-grown divisions from our plants.