'August Moon’ is a medium-large, yellow-leaved hosta that grows in a dense mound to 16-20" tall and to 36-42" wide. An additional common name for plants in this genus is plantain lily (foliage is somewhat plantain-like and flowers are somewhat lily-like in some species). Funkia remains a popular common name today in some areas. Hosta was finally reinstated as the genus name in 1905 by the International Botanical Congress. The genus was subsequently renamed in 1817 as Funkia in honor of botanist Heinrich Christian Funk under the belief at that time that Hosta was an invalid name. Genus name honors Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834) and was first established in 1812. Bell or funnel-shaped flowers in terminal, mostly one-sided racemes bloom in late spring or summer atop vertical, unbranched, usually leafless but frequently bracted scapes which rise upward from the crown or rootstock to a point often well above the foliage mound. Stalked, conspicuously-veined, often dense, basal leaves in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and textures rise up from a central rhizomatous crown to form a rounded to spreading mound of foliage. Hostas are primarily grown for their ornamental foliage.
Hosta is a genus of about 70 species of shade-loving, rhizomatous, clump-forming, herbaceous perennials which are native to open woodlands, woodland margins and glades in Japan, Korea, China and eastern Russia.
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