| Description | Orange Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) is a Daylily that has naturalized growing in fields and along roadsides. Has a stoloniferous spreading habit and can be a very aggressive spreader. Many times called "Ditch Lily" since it is commonly seen growing in ditches. |
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| Pronunciation | (hem-er-o-kal-lis) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full, some shade |
| Moisture | average, very tolerable |
| Soil & Site | average, very tolerable |
| Flowers | orange, tawny to rusty red orange, on a long scape |
| Fruit | seed pod, black seeds |
| Leaves | strap like leaves, spray from a crown just underneath the soil |
| Stems | crowns, stolons |
| Dimensions | 3 plus feet, reported to reach 6 in optimum conditions |
| Maintenance | Maintenance of this plant is rather easy and can be treated like most perennials, which is cutting off the dead foliage in the fall when the plant is going dormant. Another way I like to do is clean the plant up after bloom, when the foliage starts to look a bit sad. Cut it back in a fan shape 4-6 inch above the ground. It will regrow and fill in with fresh foliage (hardiness zone #5). Likes to be fertilized in the spring and fall. |
| Propagation | division in late summer early fall, can be divided in the spring but at this time it is easy to break off the new plant buds, always cut the foliage on the divisions back to a fan shape |
| Native Site | Asia |
| Misc Facts | Hemerocallis fulva was given its present scientific name by the Swedish Botanist and creator of the binomial taxonomy system for classifying plants, Carl Linnaeus. aka:Tawny Daylily, Ditch Lily, Europa, Fulvous Daylily |
| Author's Notes | We sell a few of this Daylily at the garden center for nostalgic reasons. Such as "it was growing in my mothers or grandmothers yard", "I saw it growing in the ditch when I was growing up". Otherwise not many are sold. |
| Notes & Reference | #118-Daylilies (AB Stout) |
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