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hostas
Hosta
Hosta (/ˈhɒstə/, syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies (particularly in Britain) and occasionally by the Japanese name giboshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is currently placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East). Like many "lilioid monocots", the genus was once classified in the Liliaceae. The genus was named by Austrian...
27 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Small-leaved Plantain Lily
speciesHosta sieboldii
Scented hosta
speciesHosta plantaginea
Siebold's Plantain Lily
speciesHosta sieboldiana
Blue Plantain-lily
speciesHosta ventricosa
Rock Hosta
speciesHosta longipes
Wavy-leaf Plantain-Lily
speciesHosta undulata
Hosta capitata
speciesHosta capitata
Narrow-leaved Plantain-lily
speciesHosta lancifolia
Hosta clausa
speciesHosta clausa
Hosta minor
speciesHosta minor
Hosta jonesii
speciesHosta jonesii
Huksan Island Hosta
speciesHosta yingeri
Kiyosumi Mountain Hosta
speciesHosta kiyosumiensis
Handsome Plantain Lily
speciesHosta venusta
Swamp Hosta
speciesHosta longissima
Hosta kikutii
speciesHosta kikutii
White-backed Hosta
speciesHosta hypoleuca
White Powder Hosta
speciesHosta albofarinosa
Hosta tosana
speciesHosta tosana
Hosta takiminazukiflora
speciesHosta takiminazukiflora
Tsushima Plantain Lily
speciesHosta tsushimensis
Hosta shikokiana
speciesHosta shikokiana
Baran Hosta
hybridHosta × alismifolia
Nankai-Giboshi
speciesHosta tardiva
Hosta scabrinervia
speciesHosta scabrinervia
Hosta pycnophylla
speciesHosta pycnophylla
Hosta pulchella
speciesHosta pulchella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82095.