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.