Re: [SG] Favorite Shade Ground cover

I have had very good success with the three Barrenwort listed below in my zone
4 garden. Great group of plants.

EPIMEDIUM x rubrum -{E. alpinum x grandiflorum} "Red Barronwort" (e-pi-MAY-de-
um, RUB-rum)
BERBERIDACEAE. Great shade plants  growing well even in dry shade.  Plants
have reddish flowers with yellowish centers in early spring.
   Leaves have reddish rust colored markings in June. Deciduous in the north.
Plants grow 8 - 12" tall and form thick clumps.  The easiest
                            barronwort to grow and a relatively fast
multiplier. Epimedium
 grow well even with root competition from trees. .Plant in fertile humus rich
soils, they like moist soils but not wet soils.  Divide in spring. Zones
                                      4-8.
                                                .
      EPIMEDIUM  x youngianum 'Roseum' -  {E. diphyllum x
grandiflorum}"Young's Barronwort"
  (e-pi-MAY-de-um, yun-gee-AYE-num)  BERBERIDACEAE.  A clump forming shade
plant with oddly shaped leaves.  the leaves
  are somewhat shaped like triangles with each leaflet a diffrent shape. Stems
join the leaves at odd places making an interesting and attractive
 curiosity. Pinkish purplish flowers in spring. clumps are great as a specimen
but do not like very dry soils, they do their best in moist but very
  well drained soils in light shade with some light sun. this barronwort grows
6-8" tall and forms a thick clump with odd leaves poking out here
           and there. Plants are deciduous and have reddish tinged stems. A
cute plant in the rock garden. Zones 4-8.
                                                .
      EPIMEDIUM x versicolor 'Sulphureum' {E. grandiflorum x pinnatum subsp
colchicum}"Bicolor
 Barronwort"(e-pi-MAY-de-um, ver-SI-ko-lor} BERBERIDACEAE. This clump forming
plant has evergreen leaves composed of
 5-11 leaflets. Leaflets are large and rounded with spurs. This is one of the
larger Barronworts growing to 12" tall and three feet wide.  Plants are
 slowly spreading and the clumps are loser than the other species listed.
Yellow flowers early in the spring before the  new leaves expand out.  A
 hardy and adaptable plant taking more sun than others but doing well in dry
shade too. The rhizomes look like twigs just under the surface of
 the ground, they grow up to 4" long a year.   Makes a good slowly spreading
ground cover and like all Barronworts very long lived.. zones 4-8.
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