Funkia

Funkia, so called after a Prussian botanist and herbalist (1771-1839), and sometimes known in English as Plantain-lilies, a genus of Liliaceæ allied to the day-lilies (Hemerocallis). Since their introduction from China in 1790, the five or six species have been largely and increasingly cultivated, not only in greenhouses, but in shrubberies and borders or rockwork, on account of the remarkable beauty of their masses of large broadly ovate or cordate, often variegated leaves. They are easily propagated by division of the tuberous crown, and thrive best in deep soil well manured.