Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Epimedium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “temperate”.
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Group. Listed under the genus Epimedium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
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Photographs
Photographs: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (France), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Other Epimedium 34 in the reference
Epimedium acuminatum Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Wang.QG
Epimedium alpinum Barrenwort Photo: CC0, author not stated
Epimedium diphyllum Berberidaceae Photo: CC BY, Timur Kalininsky Epimedium dolichostemon Berberidaceae Names & registers
Also known as Epimedium membranaceum. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Epimedium rhizomatosum: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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