Scientific Name: Hosta 'Halcyon'
Common Name: Halcyon hosta
Family Name: Asparagaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Upright
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Small garden/space, Summer interest, Waterside planting
Exposure: Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Raceme, Violet, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Black
Key ID Features:
Leaves thick, smooth, blue- then blue/green, glaucous underside, more elongated than most blue hostas; flower lavender, August.