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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hosta ventricosa
FAMILY
Agavaceae
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Learn more about Blue Plantain-lily from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hosta ventricosa
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hosta ventricosa
COMMON NAME:
Blue Plantain-lily
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hosta ventricosa
FAMILY
Agavaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hosta ventricosa
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hosta ventricosa
4192
Forb
Perennial
Non-native: China
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare
Look for it . It is widely planted as a shade ornamental and rarely persistent, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal, spiral (plant scapose)
Leaves have petioles.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Forming dome-shaped clumps from short branching rhizomes
FLOWER:
Summer
Blue or purplish, not fragrant
6 tepals
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Capsule
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