| Scientific Name: | Hosta cvs. |
| Common Name: | hosta, plantain lily |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Summer interest, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Violet, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, Black, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump forming; leaves basal, most blades 10-30cm long x 7-25cm wide, cordate, with heavy curved parallel venation towards the apex, margins entire; florets funnel shaped, 3-6cm long x 2-5cm wide, 6 tepals, stamens curved upwards, raceme+peduncles 40-80cm long; capsules 2-3cm long x 5-8mm wide. | |