The waxy coating on a leaf produces a dusty appearance called "bloom". This glaucous coating makes the leaf appear white, gray, or blue With certain cultivars and species, the bloom on the leaf surface and underside is more intense than others. This list includes hostas with a thick underside bloom.
'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' 'Abundant Love' 'Agawa' 'Age of Gold' 'Aksarben' albofarinosa 'Allegan Emperor' 'Ambrosia' 'Amethyst Joy' 'Andy Murray' 'Arc de Triomphe' 'Arch Duke' 'Arctic Frost' 'Asher' 'Astral Bliss' 'Atomic Elvis' 'Awakening Angel' 'Aztalan' 'Azure Snow' 'Babbling Brook' 'Baby Blue Eyes' 'Baby Booey' 'Baja White' 'Bamse' 'Barbara May' 'Because of Art' 'Becca' 'Bellevue' 'Best of Twenty' 'Bethel Big Leaf' 'Beyond Glory' 'Big Bad John' 'Big Old Teddy Bear' 'Big Bubba' 'Biggie' 'Birth of the Blues' 'Bix Blues' 'Black Hills' 'Black Queen' 'Black Thunder' 'Blonde Elf' 'Blue Arrow' 'Blue Boutique' 'Blue Cadet' 'Blue Cups' 'Blue Danube' 'Blue Dimples' 'Blue Dogwood' 'Blue Edger' 'Blue Fan Dancer' 'Blue for You' |
'Blue Frost' 'Blue Genes' 'Blue Gown' 'Blue Haired Lady' 'Blue Hawaii' 'Blue Hearts' 'Blue Horizon' 'Blue Ice' 'Blue Jay' 'Blue Lady' 'Blue Mammoth' 'Blue Melody' 'Blue Moon' 'Blue Moonbeams' 'Blue Mountains' 'Blue Mouse Ears' 'Blue Mouse Ears Supreme' 'Blue Music' 'Blue My Mind' 'Blue Nymph' 'Blue Perfection' 'Blue Plisse' 'Blue Prayers' 'Blue Ridge Mountains' 'Blue Ripples' 'Blue Shadows' 'Blue Skirt' 'Blue Sliver' 'Blue Sophistication' 'Blue Stockings' 'Blue Suede Shoes' 'Blue Troll' 'Blue Vision' 'Blue Vision Supreme' 'Blue Wedgewood' 'Blueberry Patch' 'Bluebird' 'Bluegrass Country' 'Bluetopia' 'Bohemia Oh Well' 'Bohemia Quill Bill' 'Bohemia Yellow Corvette' 'Bold Ruffles' 'Boots and Saddles' 'Border Patrol' 'Borwick Beauty' 'Boston Harbormaster' 'Boundless' 'Breakers' 'Brentwood Blues' 'Bright-eyed Ellie' |
'Brother Jack' 'Brother Ronald' 'Bubble Dance' 'Buckshaw Blue' 'Bullfrog' 'Button Up' 'Cabin Boy' 'Cadiz Springs' 'Candy Dish' 'Candy Kisses' 'Carol Marie' 'Carved Complexity' 'Cease Fire' 'Champ' 'Chanticleer' 'Charles' 'Charlie Jane' 'Chartreuse Wedge' 'Chief White Cloud' 'Chinese Dragon Supreme' 'Chopsticks' 'Chris' 'Ciandra' 'Cinnamon and Sugar' 'Coal Mine' 'Coast to Coast' 'Cocky Junior' 'Cold Heart' 'Colleen Marie' 'Cool Change' 'Cosmic Eye Candy' 'Cosmic Warrior' 'Country Dreaming' 'Country Warrior' 'Courtesy' 'Creek' 'Crinkle Cup' 'Crinkled Leather' 'Crystal Chimes' 'Curvy' 'Cutting Edge' 'Dahlonega' 'Dancing with Dragons' 'Deep Blue Sea' 'Deep Waters' 'Desert Sun' 'Designer Genes' 'Dewed Steel' 'Diamond Lake' 'Dixieland Jazz' 'Dolcissimo' |
'Double Your Pleasure' 'Dr Topper Hagerman' 'Dragon's Blood' 'Dragon's Eye' 'Dream Boat' 'Dress Whites' 'Ebony Spires' 'Elkhart Lake' 'Ellie Marie' 'Elvis Lives' 'Evening Blush' 'Exotic Dancer' 'Farwell' 'Feng Shui' 'Fifth Avenue' 'Fine Art' 'Fire Dance' 'First Kiss' 'Fleet Week' 'Flemish Design' 'Flemish Gold' 'Flemish Master' 'Flemish Melody' 'Flemish Sky' 'Flower Power' fluctuans 'Fog Light' 'Fountain' 'Foxfire Flash' 'Foxfire Green Lantern' 'Friends Forever' 'Frilly Fantasy' 'Frisian Pride' 'Fritzie' 'Frosted Dimples' 'Fukurin Hakuyo' 'Fumiko' 'Future Wave' 'Gandy Dancer' 'Garnet Spires' 'Gay Paree' 'Gay Search' 'Georgia Jan' 'Ghost Mouse' 'Giantland Elegance' 'Gilt by Association' 'Ginny' 'Gitchigumi' 'Give Me Room' 'Glacier Cascade' 'Glen Eyeful Tower' |
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'Gold Wing' 'Golden Bullion' 'Golden Harmony' 'Golden Medallion' 'Gosan Sunproof' 'Grain Belt Gold' 'Grace Wins' 'Grand Slam' 'Gray Wolf' 'Great Lakes Lighthouse' 'Green Blimp' 'Green Lava' 'Green Sheen' 'Green Wedge' 'Greybeard' 'Grünspecht' 'Hairline Fracture' 'Hakuyo' 'Hakuyo Nishiki' 'Half and Half' 'Hammered Gold' 'Happy Accident' 'Happy Dayz' 'Harper Grace' 'Harry van de Laar' 'Heart Throb' 'Hearts in Motion' 'Helen Field Fischer' 'Hercules' 'Hey You' 'High and Mighty' 'High Impact' 'High Kicker' 'High Radiation' 'Hillary' 'Hime Setouchi' 'Hime Urajiro Hyuga' 'Hoarfrost' 'Holar Arches Park' 'Holar Wild Side' 'Holy Smokes!' 'Hometown Hero' 'Honey Bear' 'Honey Hill Wrinkled Rainslicker' 'Honeysong Regal' 'Hoosier Hysteria' 'Hovercraft' 'Hypnotic' hypoleuca 'Ice Palace' 'Ice Queen' |
'Ilona' 'Indiana Blue' 'Infatuation' 'Innovation' 'Irish Cream' 'Irish Longlegs' 'Isla de Taras' 'Island Fling' 'Island Flourish' 'Island Splendour' 'Island Sun' 'Island Waves' 'Ivory Queen' 'Iwato' 'J. B. Patel' 'Janet's Joy' 'Jet Black' 'Jetstream' 'Jim Boldt' 'Jipson Place Summer Solstice' 'Jipson Place Tree Top Lover' 'John Denver' 'John Luke Picard' 'Jolly Roger' 'Joshu Iwa' 'Joyce Lane' 'Judy Blue Eyes' 'Jumbo' 'June' 'June Beauty' 'Kalamazoo' 'Kifukurin Urajiro Hyuga' kikutti f. leuconata 'Kill Me Softly' 'Kim' 'Kimmie Q' 'King Midas' 'King Tucker' 'Kinki' 'Kira' 'Kirkside Blue' 'Kiss an Angel Good Morning' 'Kiss and Surrender' 'Kiss Me Farewell' 'Kiss Me Kwick' 'Kiss Me Kwick and Don't Slobber' 'Kiwi Blue Ruffles' 'Kiwi Hippo' 'Kiwi Skyscraper' 'KL's Choice' |
'Ko Seto' 'Komodo Dragon' 'Kong' 'Krinkle Sister' 'Krinkle Twist' 'Krinkled Joy' 'Krossa Dressa' 'Krossa Regal' 'Kwick's Salad Bowl' 'Kwickie' 'Lady Gaga' 'Lady in Red' 'Lady Klara-Maren' 'Lady Luck' 'Lady Peyton' 'Lady Tessa' 'Lake Michigan' 'Lake Superior' 'Lakeport Blue' 'Lakeside Blue Cunfusion' 'Lakeside Breaking News' 'Lakeside It's Colorific' 'Lakeside Lagoon' 'Lakeside Old Smokey' 'Lakeside Sapphire Pleats' 'Lambeau Leap' 'Lavender Doll' 'Lavender Stocking' 'Lederhosen' 'Legacy of Corydon' 'Lemon Meringue' 'Libby' 'Light My Fire' 'Lightning Flash' 'Lillie' 'Lily Blue Eyes' 'Limestone Lover' 'Linde' 'Little Dancer' 'Little Sheen' 'Little Wedge' 'Lochness Blue' 'Logan' 'Long Tall Sally' longipes var. hypoglauca longipes "Iwa" longipes latifolia 'Urajiro Hachijo' 'Lord Brendan' 'Lotte's Love' 'Louie Louie' 'Love Burst' |
'Love in the Afternoon' 'Love Me Tender' 'Love Nest' 'Love Pat' 'Love Potion #9' 'Love Song' 'Love Spat' 'Love Tap' 'Lucky Fifty' 'Maekawa' 'Maggie May' 'Major Tom' 'Majordomo' 'Marilyn Monroe' 'Martin Van Buren' 'Mary Chastain' 'Mastodon' 'Maui Blue Kitten' 'Meant to Be' 'Memories of Dorothy' 'Metamorphosis' 'Microtardiana' 'Midas Touch' 'Mikawa-no-yuki' 'Milky Rock' 'Mill Bluff' 'Millennium' 'Minimoon' 'Mint Condition' 'Miss American Pie' 'Miss Linda Smith' 'Miss Lya' 'Miss Lucy' 'Miss You' 'Mississippi Mist' 'Mister Green Genes' 'Mister Red Genes' 'Mixed Nuts' 'Modern Dance' 'Mohegan' 'Molly' 'Mona Lisa' 'Moor Hound' 'Moscow Blue' 'Mourning Dove' 'Mr. Jack' 'Mr Z' 'Muriel Seaver Brown' 'Nancy Gill' 'Nate the Great' 'Neptune' |
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'Nifty Fifty' 'Night at the Opera' 'Night Train' nigrescens 'Ninkasi' 'None Lovelier' 'Nordatlantik' 'Northern Mist' 'Northern Mist Grey' 'Northern Mystery' 'Odd Goddess' 'Ohh! Blue Beacon' 'Ohh! Blue Granite' 'Ohh! Clare' 'Ohh! Elvira' 'Ohh! His Blue Eyes' 'Ohh! Jewell' 'Ojibway' 'Old Smoky' 'Orphan Train Rider' 'Osprey' 'Otter Point' 'Outrageous' 'Over the Waves' 'Pacific Sunlight' 'Paint Master' 'Paradise King' 'Paradise Red Delight' 'Patriot Colors' 'Peacock Strut' 'Pebbles' 'Perry's True Blue' 'Pete's Impression' 'Petticoat Junction' 'Pewterware' 'Phoenix' 'Plum Saucy' 'Porcelain Vase' 'Potawatomi' 'Powered by Bob' 'Prairie Sky' 'Prince of Wales' 'Private Dancer' 'Proud Peacock' 'Puckered Cup' 'Puckered Giant' 'Purple Rain' 'Purple Verticulated Elf' pycnophylla |
'Quaker Lady' 'Qualifying Queen' 'Raspberry Parfait' 'Raucous Ruffles' 'Red Imp' 'Red Legs' 'Red October' 'Red-hot Mama' 'Regal Chameleon' 'Regal Heir' 'Regal Promenade' 'Regal Providence' 'Regal Ruffles' 'Regal Splendor' 'Regal Supreme' 'Regal Twist' 'Regalia' 'Restless Sea' 'Rhapsody in Blue' 'Rhino Blue' 'Rhino Hide' 'Rhubarb Pie' 'Rib Mountain' 'Ribbon Dancer' 'Richland Reward' 'Roiled Surf' 'Rosedale Marsha Axmear Erb' 'Rosedale Spoons' 'Rosedale Terraced Hills' 'Rotini' 'Rough Knight' 'Rowan My Boat' 'Ruffed Up' 'Ruffles n Ridges' rupifraga 'Urajiro Hachijo' 'Sabrina' 'Sagae' 'Sam Hagerman' 'Sanctuary' 'Save Poor Lily' 'Sails Ho' 'Salute' 'Scallion Pancakes' 'School Bus' 'Scimitar' 'Sea Gulf Stream' 'Self-Assured' 'Serene' 'Sharon Stone' 'Shawnee Gold' 'She Don't Know She's Beautiful' |
'Shimmer' 'Shimmers in the Moonlight' 'Shimmy Shake' 'Shirofukrin Urajiro Iwa' 'Shoot the Works' 'Silly String' 'Silver Bay' 'Silver Light' 'Silver Shogun' 'Silver Tongued Devil' 'Silvery Slugproof' 'Sioux' 'Sir Augie W' 'Sir Cocky' 'Sir Lloyd T' 'Sister Betty' 'Skipping School' 'Sky Dancer' 'Skylight' 'Smiling Susan' 'Smoke Signals' 'Smokey' 'Smokey Tokey' 'Smurfette' 'Snowden' 'Solitude' 'Something for Sandra' 'Soules Pruinose' 'Sourpuss' 'Spinning Wheel' 'Splendid Reign' 'Spock's Ear' 'Stargate' 'Stegosaurus' 'Stir It Up' 'Strawberry Delight' 'Subterranean Pool' 'Sugar Plum' 'Sun Safari' 'Sun Splash' 'Super Star' 'Swan Lake' 'Sweet Caroline' 'Tamiami Blue' 'Tarheel Blue' 'Telly's Treasure' 'Tenryu' 'Tequila Sunrise' 'The Gambler' 'The Minnesota Mafia' 'The Stone Horse' |
'The Wall' 'Theo's Blue' 'Theo's Red' 'Thor' 'Three Sisters' 'Tidewater' 'Titanium' 'Tokudama' 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa' 'Tom Schmid' 'Toots' 'Tossed Salad' 'Totally Twisted' 'Toyo-no-omoide' 'Trail of Tears' 'Tremont Cardiac' 'Tremont Mainstay' 'Tremont Prehensile' 'Tremont Something Dreamy' 'True Blue' 'True Heart' 'True Love' 'Turner Junction' 'Tuscarora' 'Tutu' 'Twinkle Little Star' 'Twist and Shout' 'Ultramarine' 'Uncle Albert' 'Uncle Shorty' 'Urajiro Hachijo' 'Urajiro Iwa' 'Urajiro Ko Iwa' 'Urajiro Oba' 'Urajiro Ubatake' 'Uranus' 'Valedictorian' 'Valley's Big Chute' 'Valley's Big Splendor' 'Valley's Blue Curacao' 'Valley's Blue Rider' |
'Valley's Blue Penguin' 'Valley's Cathedral' 'Valley's Cover Lady' 'Valley's Curly Wurly' 'Valley's Dancing Lady' 'Valley's Dancing Water' 'Valley's Favorite Muse' 'Valley's Fine Wine' 'Valley's First Bite' 'Valley's Front Runner' 'Valley's Golden Cave' 'Valley's Goldstriker' 'Valley's Himitsu' 'Valley's Hokey Pokey' 'Valley's Ice Giant' 'Valley's Iron Lady' 'Valley's Katafreeze' 'Valley's Lazy Sunday' 'Valley's Lemon Limbo' 'Valley's Lemon Squash' 'Valley's Liquid Gold' 'Valley's Long Neck' 'Valley's Love Birds' 'Valley's Love Buzz' 'Valley's Magnum' 'Valley's Mai Tai' 'Valley's Parlay' 'Valley's Party Fluff' 'Valley's Pavlova' 'Valley's Perfect Flow' 'Valley's Petticoat' 'Valley's Purple Hurricane' 'Valley's Pycno 348' 'Valley's Ratatouille' 'Valley's Red Dad' 'Valley's Red Raider' 'Valley's Road Runner' 'Valley's Rodeo' 'Valley's Royal Affair' 'Valley's Ruffle Shuffle' 'Valley's Sand Dance' 'Valley's Silky Skirt' 'Valley's Soul Sister' 'Valley's Space Cowboy' 'Valley's Tasuki' 'Valley's Ticket to Ride' 'Valley's Tonkatsu' 'Valley's Top' 'Valley's Wairere' 'Valley's Walkabout' 'Valley's Whale Rider' 'Valley's White Beach' 'Valley's White Suit' 'Valley's Yellow Tiffany' 'Van Wade Blue' 'Vincent Nale' 'Vinnie's Janel' 'Virginia Reel' 'Waiting in Vein' 'Walking on Sunshine' 'Waterslide' 'White Back One' 'White Ceiling' 'White Caps' 'White Heron' 'White Sprite' 'Whitefish Dunes' 'Whybblue' 'Wildcat Mountain' 'Wilderness Ridge' 'Winchester' 'Winning Edge' 'Winter Frost' 'Wishing Well' 'Wizard of Ahhhs' 'Woodland Lime' 'Wunv' 'Yaburitsugi' yingeri 'Zippy Zepps' |
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