Hosta Gold Standard Plantain Lily is suitable for shady landscapes, container plantings, and borders. It has pinkish-lavender, funnel-shaped blooms in mid-summer. Gold Standard' Plantain Lily requires partial to full shade and moist, well-drained, fertile soils. The perennial showcases a dense, overlapping mound of seersuckered, slightly cupped, wide-oval, chartreuse leaves. The foliage has irregular dark green margins and leaf centers that turn golden-yellow with the season's progression and acquire near-white shades in late summer. It shows a vigorous growth habit.