(Garrett's Hummingbird Trumpet, Orange Carpet® Hummingbird Trumpet)

An exceptionally cold-hardy of humminbird trumpet from mountains of the western United States, Epilobium canum var. garrettii is prized for its fiery, hummingbird-enticing flowers. The cultivar 'Orange Carpet' has a ground-covering habit and reddish-orange blooms.

The bright green, lance-shaped leaves of this variable perennial alternate or are paired along brittle, sprawling, mat-forming stems. Showy spikes of narrowly trumpet-shaped flowers with gaping mouths appear from...

(Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Longspur Barrenwort)

A classic groundcover for dry shady locations, barrenwort's heart-shaped leaves and tall spurred flower display in late spring makes it one of the prettiest of perennials, too. A clump forming herbaceous perennial from northern China, Korea and Japan, it becomes a nice robust clump through its rhizomes (underground stems).

Each leaf is made up of about nine leaflets, each being shaped like a heart and having spined margins. When leaves first emerge they have a bronze color and then mature to...

(Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Dark Beauty Barrenwort, Longspur Barrenwort)

A classic groundcover for dry shady locations, barrenwort's heart-shaped leaves and tall spurred flower display in late spring makes it one of the prettiest of perennials, too. A clump forming herbaceous perennial from northern China, Korea and Japan, it becomes a nice robust clump through its rhizomes (underground stems).

Each leaf is made up of about nine leaflets, each being shaped like a heart and having spined margins. When leaves first emerge they have a bronze color and then mature to...

(Barrenwort, Orion Barrenwort, Orion Bishop's Hat)

A classic groundcover for dry shady locations, Orion barrenwort's heart-shaped leaves and rose-violet flower display in late spring makes it one of the prettiest of perennials, too. A clump forming herbaceous perennial from northern China, Korea and Japan, it becomes a nice robust clump through its rhizomes (underground stems).

Each leaf is made up of about nine leaflets, each being shaped like a heart and having spined and thinly reddened margins. When leaves first emerge they have a bronze...

(Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Purple Bishop's Hat)

A classic groundcover for dry shady locations, Purple bishop's hat's heart-shaped leaves and late spring's flowers of purple and white makes it one of the prettiest of perennials, too. A clump forming herbaceous perennial from northern China, Korea and Japan, it becomes a nice robust clump through its rhizomes (underground stems).

Each leaf is made up of about nine leaflets, each being shaped like a heart and having spined margins. When leaves first emerge they have a bronze or purplish color...

(Barrenwort, Bronze Maiden Barrenwort, Bronze Maiden Bishop's Hat)

A classic groundcover for dry shady locations, Bronze Maiden bishop's hat's bronze-red, heart-shaped leaves and late spring's flowers of pink-lavender makes it one of the prettiest of the species. A clump forming herbaceous perennial from northern China, Korea and Japan, it becomes a nice robust clump through its rhizomes (underground stems).

Each leaf is made up of about nine leaflets, each being shaped like a heart and having spined margins. When leaves first emerge they have a coppery red...

(Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Fairy Wings)

One of the best groundcovers for dry shade, this evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial is prized for its handsome foliage and sunny spring flowers. It is a hybrid of Epimedium pinnatum var. colchicum and Epimedium perralderianum.

This hardy perennial forms dense, low, steadily expanding clumps of leathery compound leaves with heart-shaped to arrowhead-shaped, conspicuously toothed leaflets. The foliage is maroon and green when new, solid green in summer, and bronze-flushed...

(Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Fairy Wings, Fröhnleiten Barrenwort)

One of the best groundcovers for dry shade, this evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial is prized for its handsome foliage and its relatively large and abundant spring flowers. It is a hybrid of Epimedium pinnatum var. colchicum and Epimedium perralderianum.

This hardy perennial forms dense, low, steadily expanding clumps of leathery compound leaves with heart-shaped to arrowhead-shaped, conspicuously toothed leaflets. The foliage is maroon and green when new, solid...

(Red Alpine Barrenwort, Red Barrenwort)

A pretty groundcover, the hybrid red alpine barrenwort has reddish new leaves, bicolored red and light yellow flowers in mid- and late spring and reddened foliage again in fall and winter. This species was created with the crossing of Epimedium alpinum with Epimedium grandiflorum. It spreads via underground stems (rhizomes) but forms lovely foliage mounds. It is semi-evergreen where winters are cold but mild.

The leaves are elongated hearts or simple ovals and are found in clusters...

(Barrenwort)

A pretty groundcover, this hybrid barrenwort has reddish new leaves, multicolored pink, yellow and red flowers in mid- and late spring and reddened foliage again in fall and winter. This species was created with the crossing of Epimedium pinnatum /em> with Epimedium grandiflorum. It spreads via underground stems (rhizomes) but forms lovely foliage mounds. It is semi-evergreen where winters are cold but mild.

The leaves are comprised of many oval to heart-shaped leaflets that have...