Editing Daylily (section)

== Description ==
[[Image:Lilies at Block Island IMG 1052.JPG|thumb|Daylilies on [[Block Island, Rhode Island|Block Island]], [[Rhode Island]].]]
[[Image:Hemerocallis fulva - flower view 02.jpg|thumb|The orange daylily (''[[Hemerocallis fulva]]'') in China]]

''Hemerocallis'' are herbaceous clump-forming perennials growing from rhizomes,<ref name="FNA">{{Cite web |title=Hemerocallis in Flora of North America @ efloras.org |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=114981 |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=www.efloras.org}}</ref> some produce spreading [[stolon]]s. They have a fibrous or fibrous-tuberous root system with contractile roots.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bajaj |first=Y. P. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGrpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 |title=Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering VI |date=2012-12-06 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-642-57840-3 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Tuber|tuberous root]]s are used to store nutrients and water. The arching leaves are produced from the base of the plant (basal) and lack [[Petiole (botany)|petioles]],<ref name="FNA"/> they are strap-like, long, linear [[lanceolate]] [[leaf|leaves]] and grouped into [[Phyllotaxis|opposite]] fans. The crown is the small portion between the leaves and the roots. The large showy flowers are produced on [[scape (botany)|scape]]s. The slightly irregular shaped flowers are arranged in helicoid cymes, or produced solitarily.<ref name="FNA"/> The scapes of some species and cultivars produce small leafy proliferations arising from the [[node (botany)|node]]s or in [[bract]]s. The proliferations are [[Cloning|clones]] that root when planted.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wyman |first=Donald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSExQDJtQ7AC&pg=PA519 |title=Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia |date=1986 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-02-632070-2 |language=en}}</ref>

Typically ''Hemerocallis'' flowers have three similar [[petal]]s and three [[sepal]]s, collectively called [[tepals]], and each have a [[midrib]]. The centermost part of the flower, called the throat, may be a different color than the more distal areas of the tepals. Each flower has six [[stamen]]s joined to the [[perianth]] tube, each with a two-lobed [[anther]]. The unequal stamen filaments are curved upward with the linear-oblong anthers dorsifixed. The superior ovary is green, with three chambers and the stigma is 3-lobed or capitate. The fruit is a [[Capsule (fruit)|capsule]] (often erroneously called a pod since botanical pods are found in [[Fabaceae]]). The fruits may have no seeds (sterile), or many relatively large, shiny, black, roundish seeds.<ref name="FNA"/><ref name="CRC"/> The flowers of most species open in early morning and wither during the following night, possibly replaced by another one on the same [[Scape (botany)|scape]] the next day. Some species are night-blooming. The [[Ploidy|haploid]] number of chromosomes is eleven.<ref name="FNA"/>