barrenwort 'Wudang Star'

A clump-forming perennial 25-35cm high, with a short, creeping rhizome, evergreen, two-ternate leaves with ovate-heart-shaped, spine-toothed, glossy, mid-green leaflets, 6-10cm long, which are flushed with chocolate-brown in spring, and with dark red in winter, and dark flower stems, each with 20-40 star-shaped flowers, 1.5cm across, of pure white sepals, tiny orange-brown petals, and prominent yellow stamens, in late spring; Epimedium leaves may be used for their nests by leaf-cutting bees