Genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae
For other uses, see Hosta (disambiguation).
Hosta
'Bressingham Blue', a Hosta cultivar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Asparagaceae
Subfamily:
Agavoideae
Genus:
Hosta Tratt., conserved name, not Jacq. (syn of Cornutia in Lamiaceae) nor Vell. ex Pfeiff. (Primulaceae)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Saussurea Salisb., illegitimate homonym, not DC. (Saussurea in Asteraceae)[3]
Bryocles Salisb.
Niobe Salisb.
Funkia Spreng., illegitimate homonym, not Willd. (syn of Astelia in Asteliaceae)
Libertia Dumort., illegitimate homonym, not Spreng. (Libertia in Iridaceae) nor Lej. (syn of Bromus in Poaceae)[4]
Hosta sieboldiana by Abraham Jacobus Wendel, 1868
Hosta (/ˈhɒstə/,[5] syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is currently placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae,[6] and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East).[2] Like many "lilioid monocots", the genus was once classified in the Liliaceae. The genus was named by Austrian botanist Leopold Trattinnick in 1812,[7] in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host.[8] In 1817, the generic name Funkia was used by German botanist Kurt Sprengel in honor of Heinrich Christian Funck, a collector of ferns and alpines;[9] this was later used as a common name and can be found in some older literature.
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