Epimedium grandiflorum var violaceum Bronze Maiden Echinacea Instead of having all-gold foliage

Instead of having all-gold foliage like the parent

The vigorous clumps are topped in midsummer with 20" spikes of light lavender flowers

then brown

a cross of Dryopteris goldiana and Dryopteris cristata

Epimedium grandiflorum var violaceum Bronze Maiden Echinacea Instead of having all-gold foliageEpimedium 'Bronze Maiden' is a 1999 release from epimedium guru Darrell Probst that emerges in spring with mahogany bronze new foliage, which is in turn topped with mauvy lavender clusters of large spurred flowers in late March and April in NC. Expect a three year old clump of this winter deciduous, deer resistant, floriferous selection to reach 1' tall x 30" wide.