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Hemerocallis citrina (citron daylily)

Synonyms: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus citrina

Wikipedia Abstract

Hemerocallis citrina, common names citron daylily and long yellow day lily, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asphodelaceae.
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Infraspecies

Hemerocallis citrina var. citrina
Hemerocallis citrina var. vespertina

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Large quantities of the leaves are said to be hallucinogenic. Blanching the leaves removes this hallucinatory component; (This report does not make clear what it means by blanching, it could be excluding light from the growing shoots or immersing in boiling water;)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  The flowers have a lemony scent. Another report says that they have a pronounced honeysuckle scent.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The tough dried foliage is plaited into cord and used for making footwear;
Height [2]  30 inches (0.75 m)
Width [2]  30 inches (0.75 m)
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External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0