WorldFloraDB - Hemerocallis

Characteristics

Rhizomatous perennials. Leaves all basal, sessile, distichous, linear, keeled. Scape tall, usually branched. Flowers large, yellow or reddish, in terminal corymbs; each flower shortly pedicellate, bract 1; perianth united below, funnel-shaped above with spreading or recurved lobes > tube. Capsule leathery, loculicidal, 3-angled. Spp. C. 20, of temperate Eurasia. Adventive sp. 1.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

-

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.9

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

0.4

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	Diuretic (unspecified), Hemostatic (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	21 - 49
Germination temperacture (C°)	15 - 21
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	stratification
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-