Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Burkey
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1989
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 40 inches
Bloom size: 7 inches
Bloom time: Midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom
Bud Count: 10-15
Branching: 3-way
Bloom Traits: Eye or Band
Bloom Form: Unusual Form
Unusual Form - Crispate
Color description: violet mauve semi-spider with dark purple eyezone and green chartreuse throat
AHS Awards: Award of Merit: 2004
Honorable Mention: 2001
DCS: 2014
RWM: 2011

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: Trahlyta x Persian Pattern
Child plants: 117 child plants

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Location: Wiesbaden - Germany
Date: 2017-07-12
Location: my garden-zone 6b
Date: 2023-06-24
Location: my garden-zone 6b
Date: 2023-07-03
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Date: 7-5-2015
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Date: 2019-07-09
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Date: 2019-08-12
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Date: 2020
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2018-06-04
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Location: central New Hampshire
Date: 2019-07-27
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Date: July 2021
Location: My garden, Eagle Point, Oregon
Date: 2019-07-01
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Date: 2023-07-18
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Date: 2023-06-25
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2018-06-04
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Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-07-29
Location: Nocona,Texas zn.7 My gardens
Date: 2019-07-11
Pictured with Moonlit Masquerade..both extended bloomers
Location: Melvindale, Mi. 48122
Date: Mid season 2010
Very nice plant!!!
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Location: Iowa
Date: 2020-07-15
Location: my garden-zone 6b
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Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2023-07-18
Location: Maine
Location: my garden
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Location: In my garden in Lenore, ID
Date: 7-5-2014

Date: 2022-08-18

Photo Courtesy of Daredevil Daylilies. Used with Permission
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Location: My Yard, zone 6a
Date: 2015-07-03
Location: My Yard, zone 6a
Date: 2015-07-03
Location: My Yard, zone 6a
Date: 2015-07-03

Date: 2013-07-09
Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2016-06-04
Location: Nocona,Texas zn.7 My gardens
Date: 2019-07-11
Blooming off&on for over a month now!
Location: My garden, Eagle Point, Oregon
Date: 2018-06-16
FFE Bloom, Huge and beautiful!

Date: 2020-07-17
Photo by Calif_Sue
Location: Central Ohio
Date: 7/5/08
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Location: Haley Springs Farm
Date: 2020-07-12
Location: Dayton, KY
Date: 7/11/13
Location: My Yard, zone 6a
Date: 2009-07-22
Location: My garden, Eagle Point, Oregon
Date: 2019-06-15
FFO bloom
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Photo Courtesy of Earlybird Daylilies. Used with Permission.
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Location: kitchener
Date: 2015-07-25
Photo by tugg
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 7-12-2015

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Location: Valley of the Daylilies in Lebanon, OH. Home of Dan and Jackie Bachman
Date: 2005-07-10
Location: Valley of the Daylilies in Lebanon, OH. Home of Dan and Jackie Bachman
Date: 2005-07-07

Photo Courtesy of Ellies Daylilies Used with Permission
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Location: kitchener
Date: 2015-07-27
Location: SE Michigan
Date: July 2015
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2015-07-07

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Photo by mattsmom
Location: Haley Springs Farm
Date: 2020-07-08
Location: Northern Germany
Date: 2017-06-24
Location: Jackie and Dan Canner Garden, Georgetown, KY
Date: 2015-07-11
Location: Jackie and Dan Canner Garden, Georgetown, KY
Date: 2015-07-11
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 6-20-2015
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2017-07-22
Location: My garden, Eagle Point, Oregon
Date: 2019-06-18

Photo Courtesy of May's Acres Daylilies. Used with Permission.
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Date: 2004-08-06
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Photo by mattsmom
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 7-12-2015

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Location: my 6a Missouri Garden
Date: 2016-06-23
Location: Naperville, IL
Date: July 2022
Comments:
  • Posted by bluegrassmom (South central KY - Zone 6b) on Mar 26, 2021 7:52 PM concerning plant:
    This is one of my first spidery daylilies. It is such a good grower I will always keep it! Increase at a great pace! Fertile
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