Hosta capitata is
a perennial herb with a 40-60cm height in damp limestone areas.
Leaves are in a rosette way, 7-16cm long, in the shape of a broad
oval, and not glossy, with swellings on the back surfaces and purple
dots at the bases of petioles. Flower stalks erect, with striates,
and the flowers set themselves in racemes, with bracts at the bases.
Corollas are bell-shaped, purple-light purple, with six 4-5cm long
perianth segments. The flowers open in the morning and wither in the
evening. Bloom time: June-July. |