This is a cultivar
introduced by Frances Williams in 1943
and registered on her behalf by the
American Hosta
Society in 1986 as a hybrid of H. 'Decorata' and H. 'Fortunei'.
It forms a medium sized (16 inches high) mound of dark green foliage which
spreads by
rhizomes which makes it an excellent ground cover plant.
Light purple flowers bloom on many scapes per clump in August.
Similar cultivars include H. 'Decorata
Normalis'.
Sports include H. 'Fan Dance'
and H. 'Natalie'.
According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis
(2009), "'Natalie': registered as a
'Dorothy' sport with white-centered, green-margined leaves...but
probably out of 'Dorothy Benedict' or 'Blue Angel'."
