Note that on some devices you will need to manually select Landscape Mode from the print dialog.
| Scientific Name: | Hosta sieboldiana |
| Common Name: | blue hosta |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Vase |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Heavily veined, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Violet, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, ovate, most 20-35cm long x 15-30cm wide, blue-green, glaucous, 12-14 pairs of major veins, margin entire, apex cuspidate and base cordate. | |