The shape of flowers

Variations with untypical flowers

Variations of daylilies with untypical flowers are not only diversified and often very attractive group of plants, but at the same time they constitute a proof for endless possibilities to obtain variations with structure different from the type. The shortcoming of this group is (occurring in varying degrees and wide range) the lack of repetition of untypical flowers during the period of flowering. Conducted registers determine the percentage of number of untypical flowers compared to all flowers of given variation.
The plants with untypical, usually increased number of sepals are dominant in regard to distinction in this group of daylily variations (fig.17)
Usually there are eight of them, but you can also stumble upon the variations with twelve sepals.

Fig.17 Variations of daylilies with increased number of sepals

Moosa Pa Loosa

Greywoods Dixie Belle

Magical Indeed

Too Many Petals

I Have Issues

Calico Poly

Generation X

Moana Gloria May

Another group is constituted by plants that have untypical relations between petals and sepals in regard to the following features: structure, size, shape and relative proportions (fig.18).It creates a huge variety of the most unexpected shapes and it justifies the expression used by some breeders: UFO – for this group of variations.

Fig.18 Variations of daylilies with untypical flowers

Spoon for Escargots

Witch Stichery

Shady Lady

Charlies Loss

Sabine Bauer 4

Eye on a String

Extraterrestrial

Webster’s Pink Wonder

To sum up this part of considerations, it should be noted that daylilies take very diverse forms of flower anatomical structure, which results in almost unlimited possibilities for breeders to create new, previously unknown solutions.