Perennials -
Daylily
The scientific name
for daylily is Hemerocallis, most recently
considered to belong in the plant family Hemerocallidaceae.
Previously, many older works placed daylilies in the Lily family,
Liliaceae. Notice that the preferred spelling is "daylily" as one
word. Many dictionaries spell it as two words. The word
Hemerocallis is derived from two Greek words meaning "beauty"
and "day," referring to the fact that each flower lasts only one
day. To make up for this, there are many flower buds on each
daylily flower stalk, and many stalks in each clump of plants, so,
the flowering period of a clump is usually several weeks long.
And, many cultivars have more than one flowering period.
Modern hybrid daylilies have a remarkably diverse color range,
especially considering that the wild types from which they have
been bred were only in shades of yellow, orange, fulvous (i.e.,
dull reddish yellow), and rosy-fulvous. Today, the only colors
notably lacking are pure white and pure blue.
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