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Jan 15, 2024 8:30 PM CST
Name: Maurice
Grey Highlands, Ontario (Zone 5a)
I do not know of anywhere that accurate daylily cultivar cold hardiness is listed. You may be able to find some information about some daylily cultivars by searching the internet for each specific cultivar. You may also find some information here from members who grow specific cultivars and the zones in which they grow them.
There is a list on the internet (outdated now possibly) of some daylilies registered as evergreen that are hardy to zone 5. There may be other similar lists.

You can guess a very approximate hardiness by where each cultivar was hybridized. The further south the location the less winter hardy (on average) a cultivar may be. The further north a cultivar was hybridized the more winter hardy (on average) a cultivar may be.
You can adjust that approximate hardiness of a cultivar by looking at the location where its parents were hybridized, if that is available. If they were hybridized further south then the cultivar is likely to be less rather than more hardy than expected and vice versa if they were hybridized further north. If only one parent was hybridized further north (or south) then the adjustment would be less than if both parents were.

The more generations that the ancestry of a cultivar is southern-bred then most likely the more adapted it will be to milder/shorter winters. The more generations that the ancestry of a cultivar is northern-bred then the more likely it will be better adapted to longer/colder winters.

Those are the best generalizations that can be used when/if there are no measured objective measurements of cold hardiness (there are few if any such measurements for daylilies that I know of).
Maurice
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