POLYMEROUS

Polymerous is an adjective used to designate a daylily with more than the normal number of petals (3) and sepals (3).  The following photos were taken in our gardens during the 2010 bloom season.  None of the cultivars pictured is registered as polymerous.

ALL AMERICAN CHIEF*     Sellers     '94

AMONG US*     Lambertson     '06

APACHE WAR DANCE*     Thomas, D.     '94

APPLE TART*     Hughes     '74

  

BOMBAY BICYCLE     Branch  '90

BRONZE COCKEREL     Couturier, G     '95

CALDERA     Lambert  '89

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES*     Jerabek  '03

CHEROKEE VISION*     Reinke, J.     '00

CHICAGO BLACKOUT*     Marsh     '70

COMPLICATED     Murphy     '06

CROWN OF CREATION*     Rice     '98

GRANDMA KISSED ME     Reeve     '98

HERMIE     Glidden     '87

JAMACIAN DRUM*     Reckamp     '74

MARKED BY LYDIA     Temple  '94

MARSE CONNELL     Connell  '52

NEAL BERREY     Sikes     '85

NILE CRANE*     Munson, R.W.     '78

OPEN HEARTH     Lambert     '76

OUTRAGEOUS     Stevens, D.  '78

PAUL WEBER     King-Lamone  '99

PENNY ARCADE*     Sellers     '90

PICKET FENCES     Seaman  '94

RUBY SPIDER*     Stamile     '91

TURN TURN TURN*     Lambertson     '04

TUTANKHAMUN  (4 Petals/4 Sepals)  Elliott  '78

TUTANKJAMUN  (5Petals/5Sepals)

(Better than 60% of the time more than one bud opens in the clump one of the blooms will be polymerous)

VICTORIAN LACE*     Stamile  '01

WANDERING MINSTREL*     Moldovan     '01