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Hemerocallis 'American Revolution'
Daylily
Plant Type:
DAYLILY (HEMEROCALLIS)Hemerocallis ‘American Revolution' - A dark , velvety red-black with a small contrasting yellow throat with possible rebloom in more southerly locales. This is among the blackest of daylilies upon opening when summer mornings are relatively cool. It has never exhibited that trait in northeastern Connecticut; I guess our growing season is too short. As I told a Goth friend that 'American Revolution' is the color of really old dried blood... perhaps not the best selling pitch but she liked it. Scapes rise to 28 inches above grassy foliage that attains a height of 20 inches. A Wild intro made back in 1972... not 1792
5.5”/ M / H28”/ R / / D / dor
Characteristics and Attributes for Hemerocallis 'American Revolution'
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Summer
Season of Interest (Foliage)
- Spring / Summer
Nature Attraction
- Honey Bees & Native Bees
- Butterflies
Light
- Full Sun
- Mostly Sunny
Attributes
- Border
- Cottage Garden
- Drought Tolerant
- Filler
- Grouping
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Medium
Soil
- Fertile
- Adaptable
- Draining
Origins
- Garden Origin
Propagated By
- Division
Genus Overview: Hemerocallis
Common Name: Daylily
The well-known daylily. We have become increasingly taken with the late and very late bloomers. Those glorious daylily trumpets add such rich and contrasting texture to mops and strands of goldenrods, Joe-pye weeds and late season daisy flowers that occur in abundance at this time; they are splendid with the broad flattened domes of ironweeds, the spikes of Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’ plus the seeds and berries that so opulently populate the landscape in the late season. We are offering a handful of mid-season bloomers. Of course, most of the breeding has centered about these and for this reason many of these cultivars are fancier. But we find there is elegance in the simpler flower form and gentler colors, often soft pastels, in the later selections. Most of the late bloomers but not all have originated with Olallie Daylily Gardens in South Newfane, VT. All cultivars are hardy in USDA zones 3 to 9 unless otherwise marked. All of the following are sent as bareroot divisions of our plants.
Please refer to the following descriptive codes for all daylilies:
Flower Size: is measured in inches (“)
Bloom Season: Very Early = VE
Early = E
Early Middle = EM
Middle = M,
Middle Late = ML
Late = L
Very Late = VL
Height: with an upper case “H” is measured in inches (“)
Rebloom: is indicated with an upper case “R”
Fragrance: is indicated with an upper case “F”
Very Fragrant: is indicated with an upper case “VF”
Diploid: is indicated with an upper case “D”
Tetraploid: is indicated with an upper case “T”
Dormant: is indicated with a lower case “dor”
Evergreen: is indicated with a lower case “ev”
All Daylilies are sold bare root