상록삼지구엽초-[정명] Epimedium sempervirens Nakai ex F.Maek.

과명	Engler- APG Ⅳ- Berberidaceae (매자나무과)	속명	Epimedium (삼지구엽초속)
전체학명	[정명] Epimedium sempervirens Nakai ex F.Maek.	추천명	상록삼지구엽초
추천명변경: 셈페르비렌스삼지구엽초 -> 상록삼지구엽초

 

An evergreen perennial herb that grows on the forest floor of deciduous forests. It is often found in snowy areas on the Sea of Japan side. The Japanese name comes from the evergreen leaves and flowers shaped like a ship's anchor.

Tokiwa Ikari Grass | Tajima Kogen Botanical Garden (tajima-garden.jp)

 

'...Epimedium. The barrenworts are all much of a muchness except in the colour of their flower-flights plants of extreme but underappreciated value for quiet shady corners of the rock garden, where they will form wide masses in time, and send up in Spring and early Summer ten inch showers, most graceful and lovely of flowers that suggest a flight of wee and monstrous Columbines of waxy texture, and in any colour from white, through gold, to rose and violet. Then, beginning later than these, appear the leaves, hardly less an adornment in Summer than the flowers to Spring. For these are a delicious green, much divided into pointed leaflets, and borne on airy, wiry stems.'

Read more: http://tezalizard.blogspot.com/2014/08/thursday-garden-review-genus-epimedium.html#ixzz8l1zPHnzr

Thursday Garden Review: The Genus Epimedium | Teza's Hortus Magnificum (tezalizard.blogspot.com)