Plant: Lemon Snap - Hosta
Hosta · Hosta 'Lemon Snap'
$40.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A small hosta about 8 to 10 inches tall and 18 to 20 inches wide with cupped yellow to chartreuse leaves on red petioles. Purple to lavender flowers rise on dark purple scapes in midsummer. It grows in part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A small hosta about 8 to 10 inches tall and 18 to 20 inches wide with cupped yellow to chartreuse leaves on red petioles. Purple to lavender flowers rise on dark purple scapes in midsummer. It grows in part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Flowers
- Purple to lavender flowers, some purple striped, on dark purple scapes in midsummer.
- Foliage
- Yellow to chartreuse cupped leaves with red petioles.
- Fruit
- Small loculicidal capsules that split open at maturity in fall, releasing small, flat, winged black seeds.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- No pruning is needed. The foliage dies back in late fall or winter and the dead leaves can be removed then. Divide clumps every 3 to 5 years in early spring as the leaves emerge.
- Native range
- The genus is native to the Russian Far East, China, Japan and Korea; named cultivars are garden selections.
