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|accepted_name=Hosta plantaginea
|accepted_authority=(Lamarck) Ascherson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|place=21: 53. 1863
|year=1863
}}
|common_names=August-lily;fragrant plantain-lily;white plantain-lily
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hemerocallis plantaginea
|authority=Lamarck
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication_place=3: 103. 1789
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Hosta;Hosta plantaginea
|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 plantaginea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 51, 220, 224
|treatment_page=page 223
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>forming open clumps 60–90 × 45 cm; rhizomes not stoloniferous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole erect, spreading, light green, to 25 cm; blade light yellowish green, orbiculate to cordate, 20–28 × 15–24 cm, base decurrent, apex acuminate; veins in 6–9 lateral pairs. <b>Scape</b> 60–80 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: racemes bright green, 10–15-flowered, stout, solid, to 25 cm; floral bracts large, greenish white, ovate-lanceolate, navicular; sterile bracts leafy, sparse. <b>Flowers</b> to 13 cm, fragrant; perianth long-tubular; tepals white, lobes sharply recurved; anthers yellow. <b>Capsules</b> large, elongate, apex pointed. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer (August).
|habitat=Disturbed open areas
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Pa.;expected elsewhere;se China.
|discussion=<p><i>Hosta plantaginea</i> is widely cultivated for its fragrant white flowers, which open in late afternoon or evening. This showy species was the first <i>Hosta</i> cultivated in Europe, starting in 1784, and then in the New World. Following its introduction from China, it was planted by the thousands in public gardens and became known as Parisian funkia or hosta.</p>
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name=Hosta plantaginea
|author=
|authority=(Lamarck) Ascherson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hemerocallis plantaginea
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer (August).
|habitat=Disturbed open areas
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Pa.;expected elsewhere;se China.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|publication year=1863
|special status=
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|genus=Hosta
|species=Hosta plantaginea
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