Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Whatley
Year of Registration or Introduction: 2003
Foliage type: Semi-evergreen
Scape height: 24 inches
Bloom size: 6 inches
Bloom time: Early midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom
Rebloom
Bud Count: 16-20
Branching: 3-way
Bloom Traits: Self
Bloom Form: Single
Color description: very light yellow self above green throat

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Elan x Tet. Siloam Ralph Henry
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Daylily

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Location: Whatley Garden, Florissant, Missouri
Hybridizer's picture of EAGER AND EARLY
Comments:
  • Posted by mbouman (St. Peters, Missouri - Zone 6a) on Feb 14, 2012 5:39 PM concerning plant:
    According to a careful reading of Oscie's notebooks, the pod parent was not ELAN, but a seedling. He wrote a note next to the seedling number "Elan great grandparent" and misread his note with filling out registration papers.

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