Epimedium leptorrhizum Variegated Foliage Plants Paeonia japonica is great as

Paeonia japonica is great as a deer-resistant specimen in the woodland garden or scattered throughout the shady perennial border

followed by bright red jujube-like fruit in fall

Natural Impacts:

albeit slow to establish into a full-size clump

Epimedium leptorrhizum Variegated Foliage Plants Paeonia japonica is great asEpimedium leptorrhizum hails from Guizhou and Sichuan, China. This little known species that is essentially a dwarf, running Epimedium brachyrrhizum. Spreading by slender rhizomes (leptos = slender), Epimedium leptorrhizum can expand by 8" per year. The 8" tall clump is topped in late March (NC) with short flower spikes of large, pink lavender flowers, often with contrasting lighter purple spurs. Epimedium leptorrhizum prefers not to get bone dry for