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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Hosta ventricosa
|accepted_authority=(Salisbury) Stearn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|place=3, 90: 27. 1931
|year=1931
}}
|common_names=Blue plantain-lily
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bryocles ventricosa
|authority=Salisbury
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Niobe caerulea
|authority=(Andrews) Nash
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Hosta;Hosta ventricosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hosta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hosta ventricosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 223
|treatment_page=page 224
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>forming clumps 80–90 × 50 cm; rhizomes compact. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole spreading horizontally, light green with purple streaks at base, deeply grooved, 18–25 cm; blade lustrous dark green, broadly ovate to cordate, 20–30 × 15–20 cm, apex acuminate; veins in 7–9 lateral pairs. <b>Scape</b> 80–95 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: racemes stiffly erect, flushed red at base, 20–30-flowered, to 1 m; floral bracts broad, pale green, white at base; sterile bract 1, leafy, occurring at midpoint. <b>Flowers</b> 4–5.5 cm, not fragrant; perianth urceolate-cylindric; tepals bluish purple, lobes not recurved; anthers spotted purple. <b>Capsules</b> short, triangular, stubby, apex blunt. <b>2n</b> = 120.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer (July).
|habitat=Disturbed open areas
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Conn.;Del.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;expected elsewhere;China;cultivated worldwide.
|discussion=<p><i>Hosta ventricosa</i>, a natural tetraploid, undergoes pseudogamous apomixis and therefore breeds true, but is of no use as a seed parent in hybridizing. It can, however, act as a pollen parent. Like <i>H. plantaginea</i>, this species was an early introduction from China.</p>
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name=Hosta ventricosa
|author=
|authority=(Salisbury) Stearn
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Niobe caerulea
|basionyms=Bryocles ventricosa
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer (July).
|habitat=Disturbed open areas
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Conn.;Del.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;expected elsewhere;China;cultivated worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|publication year=1931
|special status=
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|genus=Hosta
|species=Hosta ventricosa
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