August lily
Hosta plantaginea (Lam.) Asch.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 1.1 m
Asparagaceae
Also called Scented hosta, Corfu Lily, Fragrant plantain lily
Formerly Funkia alba, Funkia cordata, Funkia grandiflora, Funkia japonica, and 9 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part, shade; Wikipedia full, part
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension white; Wikipedia purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- bohyška jitrocelová
- Lithuanian
- Gyslotinė melsvė
- Chinese (China)
- 玉簪, 白萼, 白玉簪
- Chinese
- 玉簪, 玉簪根, 玉簪花
- Russian
- Хоста подорожниковая
- Swedish
- doftfunkia, Doftfunkia
- Korean
- 옥잠화
- Polish
- funkia babkolistna
- Ukrainian
- Функія подорожникова
- Italian
- Giglio d'agosto
- Finnish
- tuoksukuunlilja, Tuoksukuunlilja
- Slovak
- hosta skorocelovitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Hosta plantaginea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.