Cardamine douglassii Southern Lady Xeriscaping Plants Hosta 'Totally Awe Sum' is

Hosta 'Totally Awe Sum' is a very slow growing collector hosta that eventually forms a 16" tall x 20" wide clump

would no doubt be proud of this namesake

glaucous blue-green

we now know our plant to be Liriope longipedicellata

so it's still not as hairy as bigfoot on a bad hair day

Cardamine douglassii Southern Lady Xeriscaping Plants Hosta 'Totally Awe Sum' isCardamine douglassii has become one of our new favorite native spring ephemeral plants. Cardamine douglassii emerges in early November for us and remains as flat rosettes of glaucous leaves until mid February, when it expands into a 1' tall x 18" wide clump of foliage, adorned with flower spikes of mauvy pink a true showpiece in the winter woodland garden at the same time as hellebores. For us, Cardamine douglassii is completely dormant by late April.