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Hemerocallis fulva (orange daylily)

Synonyms: Hemerocallis crocea; Hemerocallis disticha; Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus fulva; Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus var. fulva

Wikipedia Abstract

Hemerocallis fulva, the orange day-lily, tawny daylily, tiger daylily, fulvous daylily or ditch lily (also railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, tiger lily, and wash-house lily), is a species of daylily native to Asia. It is very widely grown as an ornamental plant in temperate climates for its showy flowers and ease of cultivation. It is not related to true lilies, but gets its name from the similarity of the flowers and from the fact that each flower lasts only one day.
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Infraspecies

Hemerocallis fulva var. angustifolia
Hemerocallis fulva var. aurantiaca (Attributes)
Hemerocallis fulva var. fulva
Hemerocallis fulva var. littorea (Coastal Day Lily) (Attributes)
Hemerocallis fulva var. longituba
Hemerocallis fulva var. pauciflora
Hemerocallis fulva var. sempervirens

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;)
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The tough dried foliage is plaited into cord and used for making footwear; Plants form a spreading clump and are suitable for ground cover when spaced about 90cm apart each way; The dead leaves should be left on the ground in the winter to ensure effective cover; The cultivar 'Kwanso Flore Pleno' has been especially mentioned;
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Cervus elaphus hanglu (Kashmir stag)[4]
Rhopalosiphoninus staphyleae (Mangold aphid)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 4Diets of Hangul Deer Cervus elaphus hanglu (Cetartiodactyla: Cervidae) in Dachigam National Park, Kashmir, India, G. Mustafa Shah, Ulfat Jan, Bilal A. Bhat & Fayaz A. Ahangar, Journal of Threatened Taxa | July 2009 | 1(7): 398-400
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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