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Hemerocallis minor (small daylily)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hemerocallis minor, is also known as dwarf day lily, grassleaf lily and small daylily. It is native to northern Asia (Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea). The plant grows up to 0.5 m high. Its wide yellow flowers is scentless. It is a hermaphroditic plant, and is pollinated by insects such as honey bees. In China, the flowers are eaten as a traditional food.
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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 powerful scent of honeysuckle.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The tough dried foliage is plaited into cord and used for making footwear;
Height [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Width [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Baikalskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik Ia 458883 Russia  
Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik Ia 112282 Khabarovsk, Russia
Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve V 619089 Jilin, China  
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  
Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik Ia 44224 Primorsky Krai , Russia

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