Hemerocallis
noun
the genus comprising the day lilies.
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Hemerocallis
American
[hem-er-uh-kal-is]
/ ˌhɛm ər əˈkæl ɪs /
noun
hemerocallis
British
/ ˌhɛmərəʊˈkælɪs /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Hemerocallis
1615–25; < New Latin < Greek hēmerokallís, equivalent to hēméra day + kállos beauty
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I remember puzzling over why a day lily was botanically a Hemerocallis and not a lily at all.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
There are 75,378 different day lilies officially registered with the American Hemerocallis Society.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2014
A favorite flower was the yellow garden Lily, the Lemon Lily, Hemerocallis, when it could be kept from spreading.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
This Genus has been called Hemerocallis, in English, Day-Lily, from the short duration of its blossoms, but these are not quite so fugacious in this species as in the fulva.
From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 1 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis
All this while, meantime, I have a suspicion that my pet Savoy Lily is not, in existing classification, an Anthericum, nor a Hemerocallis, but a Lilium.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
The book’s intensely colored engravings, based on drawings from life by the self-taught Bury, describe various amaryllis, hemerocallis and lily species with exacting linear precision.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2013
They started out about three feet from each other, but the hemerocallis spreads so quickly that now they form a mass that is almost impossible to break apart.
Another very poor combination that is in my garden, much to my sorrow, is hemerocallis and siberica iris.
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