FUNKIA 



FUNKIA. DAY LILY. PLANTAIN LILY 



Funkia subcorddta. Fi'mkia grandifldm. 



Ftmkia, in honor of two men; one named Funke, 1755-1801, and 

 the other Funk, 1771-1839, both German naturalists. 



The common Day Lily of old yards ; a most excellent plant. Perennial ; 

 native of Japan. Summer. 



Leaves. — With marked parallel veins, bright-green, large, broadly 

 cordate, making clumps twelve to twenty inches high. 



Flowers. — White, open, bell-shaped, borne in a short raceme, on a 

 tall flowering stem; bracts prominent; fragrant. 



Perianth. — White, long, bell-shaped, six-lobed; lobes more or less 

 irregular, and not widely spreading. 



Stamens. — Six; filaments thread-like, bent at the tip; anthers versatile. 



Ovary. — Oblong; style slender, bent at tip. 



Capsule. — Oblong, angled, many-seeded. Seeds black, winged. 



Funkia stibcordata is the old favorite, and still holds its place 

 as an attractive, ornamental, foliage plant; the great circular 

 clumps of broad, shining, prominently veined leaves adorning 

 many a yard. There are several species in cultivation; all are 

 Japanese, all are very much alike, and all easily recognizable by 

 the habit of forming clumps of radical leaves. While the in- 

 florescence is attractive and interesting, the real value of the plant 

 lies in its foliage. The flowers are either white, blue^vpr lilac, in 

 the diflierent species, of varying size, but all of the same type. 



Funkia sicboldi&na has leaves of bluish-green and blue or lilac 

 flowers. Funkia. fartimei is very much the same, having smaller 

 leaves and paler flowers. 



Funkia ovAta is the common blue-flowered species, and Funkia 

 lancifdlia, with narrower leaves and pale-lilac flowers, has two 

 varieties whose leaves vary to white: dlbo-marginata has leaves 

 edged with white, and undulhta is a form with undulate, white- 

 margined leaves or with leaves conspicuously variegated and 

 margined with pure white. This is a very pretty plant and much 

 used for borders. 



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