A crowned jewel of the woodland garden, Epimedium ‘Orange Queen’ Barrenwort lights up shady spaces with graceful sprays of vibrant orange blooms, dangling like tiny lanterns above a lush mound of heart-shaped foliage. As if its fiery spring display wasn’t enough, the new leaves emerge with a coppery blush, deepening to rich green in summer, then transforming again in fall with warm bronze tones. This drought-tolerant, deer-resistant groundcover is the ultimate problem-solver for dry shade, thriving effortlessly beneath trees and along shaded borders where most plants struggle.