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Description
Lilafee Bishop's Hat is a shade loving semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with toothed green foliage that emerges a red tinted beige and turns fully red in fall. Nodding lilac-pink flowers bloom in spring. Thrives in shade and dry to medium, well-drained acidic soils. Drought tolerant once established.
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Height: |
1' - 1.5' |
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Spread: |
1' - 1.5’ |
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Spacing: |
1’ |
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USDA Hardiness Zone: |
5 - 8 |
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Culture: |
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Bloom Color: |
Pink |
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Season of Interest: |
MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance. Mosaic virus the main disease, but otherwise little problems. Cut back any surviving winter foliage in late winter before new growth emerges.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Garden, Rock Gardens, Groundcover, and Containers.
COMPANION PLANTS: Japanese Spurge, Baby’s Breath, Echinacea
IMAGES: Photo by David J. Stang, Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 1zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Leonora (Ellie) Enking, Epimedium 'Lilafee', (3) cultivar413, 160430 095 The High Line Falcone Flyover, (4) Photo by David J. Stang, Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 5zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (5) Photo by David J. Stang, Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee 2zz, CC BY-SA 4.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
