• Image of Epimedium grandiflorum 'Circe' taken at Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC by JLBG
    Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC by JLBG
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Epimedium grandiflorum 'Circe'

Circe Fairy Wings

This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

Shop Available Epimedium

Item #: 12780

Zones: 4a to 8b

Dormancy: Winter

Height: 12" tall

Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade

Origin: Japan

Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


Epimedium grandiflorum 'Circe', a 2006 Darrell Probst introduction, and a winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, is one of our highest rated of the deciduous Epimedium grandiflorum cultivars. Epimedium 'Circe' is a heavy-flowering, very early fairy wing (late March in NC) that form a tight 1' tall clump that arches out to 30". The new foliage emerges bronze before aging to camouflage green. The clumps are topped with 1' tall flower spikes, ending in clusters of 1.25" wide, vivid violet flowers with white-tipped spurs…a much improved, heavier-flowering form of Epimedium 'Yubae'.