Orange lily
Description: This herbaceous perennial plant consists of a rosette of basal leaves and flowering stalks about 3-6′ tall. The basal leaves are linear with parallel venation and hairless, tapering gradually to a sword-like point. They have a tendency to bend down and outward around the middle, and are somewhat floppy in appearance. From the center of the rosette, there develops one or more stout flowering stalks that are held erect and are usually much taller than the leaves. Each stalk is hairless and largely naked, except for a few green bracts along its length. It is largely unbranched, except near the apex, where there is a panicle consisting of a few small clusters of flowers. The flowers are orange and quite large, spanning individually about 3�” across. They are held semi-erect or horizontally on the their stalks, rather than hanging downward. Each flower consists of 6 orange tepals (3 petals and 3 sepals that are similar in appearance) that are united at the base, but spread outward and backward toward their tips. The 3 inner tepals are somewhat broader than the 3 outer tepals. The margins of each tepal are rolled. The throat of the flower is yellow, around which there is a band of red, while the remainder of the flower is some shade of orange. Exerted from its center, there are 6 long stamens and a single style. The buds of the flowers are green to greenish orange, oblong, and up to 3″ long. The blooming period occurs during mid-summer and lasts about a month. Each flower lasts only a single day, hence the common name. The seed capsules, if any are produced, are 3-celled and contain rows of black seeds. However, these seeds are infertile because the Orange Day Lily is a sterile hybrid. The root system consists of fleshy fibrous roots and rhizomes. This plant often forms vegetative clumps of plants that exclude other species.
‘Orange Planet’
‘Orange Planet’ is a great orange upright form of trumpets. While most trumpet lilies are out of down facing, the ‘planet’ series face straight up. Color intensity in trumpet lilies can vary in different climate zones and light intensity.
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Orange lily
Orange Day Lily
Hemerocallis fulva
Lily family (Liliaceae)
Description: This herbaceous perennial plant consists of a rosette of basal leaves and flowering stalks about 3-6′ tall. The basal leaves are linear with parallel venation and hairless, tapering gradually to a sword-like point. They have a tendency to bend down and outward around the middle, and are somewhat floppy in appearance. From the center of the rosette, there develops one or more stout flowering stalks that are held erect and are usually much taller than the leaves. Each stalk is hairless and largely naked, except for a few green bracts along its length. It is largely unbranched, except near the apex, where there is a panicle consisting of a few small clusters of flowers.
The flowers are orange and quite large, spanning individually about 3�” across. They are held semi-erect or horizontally on the their stalks, rather than hanging downward. Each flower consists of 6 orange tepals (3 petals and 3 sepals that are similar in appearance) that are united at the base, but spread outward and backward toward their tips. The 3 inner tepals are somewhat broader than the 3 outer tepals. The margins of each tepal are rolled. The throat of the flower is yellow, around which there is a band of red, while the remainder of the flower is some shade of orange. Exerted from its center, there are 6 long stamens and a single style. The buds of the flowers are green to greenish orange, oblong, and up to 3″ long. The blooming period occurs during mid-summer and lasts about a month. Each flower lasts only a single day, hence the common name. The seed capsules, if any are produced, are 3-celled and contain rows of black seeds. However, these seeds are infertile because the Orange Day Lily is a sterile hybrid. The root system consists of fleshy fibrous roots and rhizomes. This plant often forms vegetative clumps of plants that exclude other species.
Cultivation: The preference is full or partial sun, fertile loamy soil, and mesic conditions. This species is very easy to grow and gradually spreads. It has few problems with pests and foliar disease.
Range and Habitat: The introduced Orange Day Lily has been observed in the wild in most counties of Illinois (see Distribution Map). This plant is probably more widespread than official records indicate, and it is fairly common. Habitats include cemeteries and cemetery prairies, thickets and woodland borders, areas along railroads and roadsides, sites of abandoned homesteads, and old flower gardens. The Orange Day Lily usually occurs at disturbed sites, but it can also invade natural areas and become in time a nuisance. The waxy coating of the leaves resists penetration by herbicides, making control of this plant more difficult. It is possible to dig plants out of the ground with a shovel, but any roots that are left in the ground can regenerate new plants. The Day Lilies (Hemerocallis spp.) originate primarily from East Asia.
Faunal Associations: In North America, the flowers are successfully cross-pollinated by neither insects nor hummingbirds. Some small bees or flower flies may collect or feed on the pollen from the anthers. Rabbits and White-Tailed Deer crop the young tender leaves during the spring when little else is available. The tender young foliage, buds, and flowers are non-toxic and edible to humans. The waxy mature foliage is less palatable and usually left alone by wildlife.
Photographic Location: An old cemetery in Urbana, Illinois.
Comments: The Orange Day Lily is considered old-fashioned, and it is now rarely offered by the horticulture industry. In its place are new hybrid Day Lilies that vary in the height of their foliage, color of their flowers, and length of their blooming period. The Orange Day Lily has been in cultivation for a long time, and it often outlasts the buildings that surround it and their inhabitants. In addition to being long-lived and persistent, this hybrid species is able to naturalize in the wild because the foliage is tall enough to compete for sunlight with other species of plants. The only other species of Day Lily that one may encounter in the wild, Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus (Yellow Day Lily), has a similar appearance, except that its flowers are yellow. The Lilium spp. (true Lilies) superficially resemble the Day Lilies, except that they have corms rather than fleshy roots, flowering stalks with true leaves, and flowers that last longer than a single day.