Family:
Asparagaceae Juss.

Hosta Tratt.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Russian Far East to China, Japan.

Doubtfully present in:

China North-Central

Native to:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin

Introduced into:

Bulgaria, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Romania, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

Hosta Tratt. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Arch. Gewächsk. Leopold Trattinick 1: 55 (1812)

Accepted by

  • Schmid, W.G. (1991). The Genus Hosta Giboshi Zoku: 1-428. B.T.Batsford Ltd., London.

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