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Asphodelaceae
Daylily
Hemerocallis fulva
Motherhood, devotion, fleeting beauty.
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
- Genus
- Hemerocallis
- Native to
- Asia (China, Korea, Japan)
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Type
- Perennial
- Height
- 30–120 cm (1–4 ft)
- Sunlight
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Average, well-drained
- Water
- Moderate
- Hardiness
- 3–9
- Lifespan
- Long-lived perennial
Did you know
- Daylilies live up to their name: each flower opens at dawn and is dead by sunset—but a single mature plant can produce hundreds of flowers per season, so the show goes on for weeks.
- The genus name 'Hemerocallis' comes from the Greek for 'beauty for a day'—a built-in poetic eulogy.
- There are now over 80,000 registered cultivars of daylily, more than any other flower in the world—an obsessive American hybridizing community has bred everything from miniatures to spider-form blooms a foot wide.
- Daylily flower buds are eaten as a vegetable across China, Korea, and Vietnam—they taste like a cross between asparagus and green beans and are used in hot-and-sour soup.
- In ancient China, daylilies were called 'forget-worry herb,' and pregnant women wore the flowers in their belts in hopes of having a son and 'forgetting their cares.'
Color meanings
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motherhood
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devotion
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coquetry