I was driving by a house with a deeply shaded front lawn and saw a
variety of hostas/ferns/etc. One plant stood out- it looked like a
giant hosta but with more rounded deep purple leaves. Could anyone
suggest what this plant is?

TIA

I bet it was a Canna.

"Guglielmo Portas" wrote in message
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I was driving by a house with a deeply shaded front lawn and saw a
variety of hostas/ferns/etc. One plant stood out- it looked like a
giant hosta but with more rounded deep purple leaves. Could anyone
suggest what this plant is?

TIA

Guglielmo Portas said:

I was driving by a house with a deeply shaded front lawn and saw a
variety of hostas/ferns/etc. One plant stood out- it looked like a
giant hosta but with more rounded deep purple leaves. Could anyone
suggest what this plant is?

One of the colorful cultivars of Bergenia cordifolia or B. purpurascens?

http://depts.washington.edu/wpa/image/berg.jpg

http://www.bethchatto.co.uk/plant%20...rpurascens%20h
elen%20dillion%20form%20(winter).html


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Thanks for the guesses. What the heck- I drove back over there and
knocked on the door. It was ligularia.

Something like this:
http://www.ljono.no/Bilete/Ligularia_The_Rocket_THL.jpg