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Botanical details
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Hosta
- Genus description
Hosta are clump-forming herbaceous perennials with simple, ovate or lance-shaped leaves, often attractively coloured or variegated, and erect racemes of nodding, funnel or bell-shaped flowers in early summer
- Name status
Accepted
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