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Buy Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekoenigin'

Also Known As

Epimedium pubigerum 'Orange Konigin'
Epimedium warleyense 'Orange Queen'
Epimedium x warleyense Orange Queen
Orange Queen Barrenwort
Orange Queen Fairy Wings

Plant type

perennial, groundcover

size

H: 16"-20"
W: 18"-20"

planting zones

5a-9b

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Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekoenigin' plant details

Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekoenigin' is a broadleaf evergreen or semi-evergreen perennial groundcover with green, red and variegated foliage. In spring and summer apricot, bronze, orange, red and yellow flowers emerge. Features glossy texture. Grows well with mostly sun - shade and regular - low water. Drought tolerant once established. Adapts to various soil conditions. Does well in average, clay, rich, rocky and well-drained soil.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekoenigin'

Plant type: perennial groundcover
Plant family: berberidaceae
Foliage: evergreen or semi-evergreen green, red and variegated
Mature size: 18 IN - 20 IN - wide, 16 IN - 20 IN - tall
Flowers: apricot, bronze, orange, red and yellow blooms in spring and summer
Uses: border plant, container plant, cutting garden, easy-to-grow, edging plant, heart-shaped leaves, long-lived, rock garden, woodland garden, year round interest

GROWING CONDITIONS for Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekoenigin'

USDA Zones: 5a - 9b
Sun exposure: mostly sun - shade
Watering frequency: regular - low
Resistant to: deer
Soil needs: average, clay, rich, rocky and well-drained

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Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Has orange and yellow flowers. The evergreen foliage will persist all winter, but as with all our Epimediums, we cut them back in January to have beautiful new growth with the flowers.

By: Gossler Farms

Delicately divided, heart shaped leaves blushed with red then maturing to green topped by clusters of light reddish orange flowers above the foliage. Plant in partial sun to full shade. 12”- 15” tall, Evergreen. Zone 5-9

By: Sebright Gardens

Heart-shaped leaves with orange flowers.

By: Little Prince of Oregon

A selected form of E. x warleyense with dainty orange apricot flowers on sturdy 10-12" stems in mid spring. Olive green, oval to heart shaped foliage takes on coppery tinted marbling in the cool temperatures of late summer and autumn. Foliage stays at about 10" and clumps can grow to 18" or more. Tolerates dry shade and is deer resistant!

By: Avant Gardens

A reliable, long-lived selection with orange flowers, its young foliage can also be flushed with orange hues. Slowly-spreading, this evergreen clump is quite dense with its round-petaled flowers residing amongst the leaves to create an overall orange cast. It's a stellar performer! Minimum temperature: -20 °F

By: Dancing Oaks Nursery

We bet you’ll take your hats off to this fabulous ‘Bishop’s Hat’, an Ernest Pagels Epimedium alpinum and Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum cross. Its intriguing flowers are defined by soft coppery tangerine-colored petals, greenish anthers and spurs painted with red streaks. The light green spring foliage is spiny toothed and warmed by reddish margins. We place it alongside our shaded steps and benches amid Helleborus ‘Ivory Prince’, so that we can enjoy the detail and contrasting colors. Blooms March–April. Size: 16" high x 16"–18" wide; hardy to zone 5.

By: Digging Dog Nursery

A lovely semi-evergreen ground cover for part shade to shade with golden orange fairy flowers on wiry stems in April before the new, heart-shaped leaves emerge. Remove old foliage in February. Forms a clump 18" high x 9-12" wide. Loves rich, moist soil, but tolerates dry conditions, choice for dry woodland -- deer resistant. Frost hardy in USDA zone 4.

By: Cistus Nursery

This spreading barrenwort has coppery red flowers with yellow centres and spiny, semi-evergreen leaves. Cultivars from this cross are said to be some of the best epimediums for the garden. Epimediums are among the easiest perennials to grow. They thrive in medium to heavy shade, and when established, are highly drought tolerant. They can be used as effective groundcovers or shade garden accents. They are deer resistant and are seldom bothered by voles or other critters.

By: Phoenix Perennials and Specialty Plants Ltd.

AKA: 'Orangek_nigen' in German. Coppery-orange flowers bloom from mid-to-late spring on bushy, mounded foliage. It slowly spreads as it naturalizes under shrubs or large perennials. Introduced by Ernst Pagels of Germany.

By: Deer Country Gardens

Lovely soft orange flowers 8" to 10" above leaves. Flowers usually in April.

By: Greer Gardens Inc.

Or Orange Queen in translation from the German. A tough and showy evergreen Epimedium whose tangerine flowers are among our favorites. This makes nice dense clumps which are fairly weed suppressive. Always a good thing.