Michigan wildflowers and weeds - Daylily

This beautiful flower, the Common Orange Daylily,(Hemerocallis fulva ), is not native to North America. They are thought to be escaped hybrids of European or Asian daylilies that flourished here and at one point most rural Michigan roads were lined by what was fondly called Ditch lilies. This is somewhat remarkable because the Common Orange daylily is sterile and produces no fertile seeds. It spreads only by the root system, called a rhizome. But any gardener that has introduced these into a home garden can tell you that they spread rapidly and persistently this way

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Michigan wildflowers and weeds - Daylily

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