Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Purple Pixie’
at Digging Dog

Epimedium

Barrenwort or Bishop’s Hat

Dense and leafy Epimedium is one of our most successful ground covers for the moist woodland setting. New heart-shaped leaves on wiry stems unfurl in spring with a rosy, marbled coloration that fades to green as summer approaches. In autumn, the marbling returns in coral and copper, enduring mild winters.

The tiny, unusual flowers (Bishop’s Hats) are held above the foliage in airy sprays, and resemble miniature Columbines. Durable and long-lived, Epimediums can adapt to drier conditions once established, spreading slowly and steadily. Both flowers and foliage are prized for small arrangements.

Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Purple Pixie’     

With a name that’s quite apropos, this Richard Lighty introduction conjures fanciful flowers distinguished by vivid purple sepals and extended white spurs. Exquisitely detailed blooms dance on dark wire-thin stems above a marvelous bed of damson-flushed springtime foliage. Generating a compact, yet plucky ground cover, the heartlike leaves develop olive green hues and maroon margins as they mature.

‘Purple Pixie’ will impart enchanting accents to the dappled recesses of your garden, especially when nestled alongside Geranium ‘Claudine Dupont’. (pp#13,966)

Blooms April–May.

Size: 9"–12" high x 12"–15" wide; hardy to zone 5.

Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Purple Pixie’ (P-1694)
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Other selections in this genus

• Epimedium ‘Amber Queen’
• Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Lilafee’
• Epimedium x perralchicum ‘Frohnleiten’
• Epimedium perralderianum
• Epimedium ‘Pink Elf’
• Epimedium x rubrum
• Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
• Epimedium x warleyense
• Epimedium x warleyense ‘Orange Queen’
• Epimedium x youngianum ‘Niveum’
• Epimedium x youngianum ‘Roseum’