Hosta 'Romaine'
 

Registered by Jim and Karen Schwarz of Jim's Hostas of Iowa (now owned by Uniquely Hostas of Wisconsin) in 2011, this upright growing cultivar is of unidentified parentage. It is a large size hosta about 24 inches tall by 33 inches wide with medium green foliage. The leaves are broadly ovate, moderately corrugated and dull on top. White flowers with a lavender cast bloom from mid-July into August on scapes 22 inches tall.

According to the registration materials: "...comes looking like lettuce, textured like you could pick it for salad..."


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