Habit
Hervé Goëau, Tela Botanica · CC BY-SA 2.0
Orange daylily
Hemerocallis fulva L.
Also known as: Tawny daylily, Ditch lily
Family: Asphodelaceae
60 cm to 1 m tall
Gardens, banks, riverbanks, all soils
Flowering: June – August
Full sun
Part shade
Hardy to -30°C
❓ How do you recognise this plant?
Each flower opens for only a single day, hence its common name "daylily".
🍃 Leaves
Long, strap-shaped, arching, bright green, in a dense clump
🌸 Flowers
Large tawny-orange funnel-shaped flowers, borne on long flower stems
🍎 Fruits
Three-angled capsules rarely seen
🪵 Bark
Dense herbaceous clump of fleshy roots
🗺️ Distribution
Native to Asia; widely naturalised along roads and ditches, and grown in gardens in France.
🐝 Value for pollinators
Large ephemeral (one-day) orange flowers, rich in nectar, visited by bumblebees and butterflies.
✂️ Horticultural uses
Perennial beds, banks, borders; very hardy and undemanding, colonises easily by rhizomes.
⚠️ Possible toxicity
No known toxicity to humans (flowers eaten in Asia); toxic to cats.
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