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Key to Hosta

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1 Leaves light yellowish green or with yellowish margins and/or yellowish variegation; flowers long-tubular, to 13 cm long, white, fragrant
1 Leaves green, flowers campanulate to urceolate, 4-5.5 cm long, blue or purplish, not fragrant.
  2 Leaves lanceolate to oblong, 10-17 cm long, 5-7.5 cm wide, with 5-6 lateral veins on each side of the midvein; scapes 40-50 cm tall; flowers purplish violet; anthers purple
  2 Leaves ovate to cordate, the blade 20-30 cm long, 15-20 cm wide, with 7-9 lateral veins on each side of the midvein; scapes 80-95 cm tall; flowers bluish purple; anthers spotted purple