POLYMEROUS vs. POLYTEPAL

In 1995, the American Hemerocallis Society recognized a new classification of daylilies and called them "polytepals." This term was botanically incorrect. At the fall 2008 meeting of the AHS Board of Directors correctly changed the term to "polymerous."

As a leading advocate of this new form of Hemerocallis, I urge all daylily growers and hybridizers to use the term "polymerous" for flowers that are syntepalous, i.e., those that have four or more segments in each whorl that are joined at the base, forming the perianth tube as in daylilies.

The term "polytepalous" refers to multiple flower segments that are completely separate from each other, which is not the case in Hemerocallis.

Additional Polymerous Terms

tetramerous = 4 per whorl ; a tetramer
pentamerous = 5 per whorl; a pentamer
hexamerous = 6 per whorl; a hexamer

Bobby Baxter

Happy Moose Gardens

Diploid Listing of Polymerous Daylilies

These are all of the registered polymerous diploids. Click the cultivar name to view master detail information.

Cultivar Name	Hybridizer	Reg. Year	Poly %
Ajure Sunrise	Smith-T.L.	2006	5%
Ambrosia Sundayhaus	Smith-T.L.	2004	50%
As You Wish	Murphy-J.P.	2005	20%
Aslan's Mane	King-M.	2001	95%
Bachelor's Dream	Holzrichter	2004	40%
Banjo Bird	Reed	2006	25%
Beware the Wizard	Couturier-G.	1995	75%
Bluegrass Bubblegum	Burris	2005	20%
Bob Daniel	Burris	2005	20%
Boot Scoot'n County San Joaquin	Stoneking-Jones	2002	80%
Butterfield Eight	Reinke-B.	2004	20%
Carolina Flying Poly Possum	Baxter	2002	90%
Carolina Octopus	Baxter	2002	65%
Centennial Brady William	Crawford	2003	60%
Centennial Eight	Crawford	2003	80%
Centennial Four Moons	Crawford	2003	60%
Centennial Gambler's Dream	Crawford	1998	100%
Centennial Gold Dream	Crawford	2003	90%
Centennial Purple Drum	Crawford	2003	60%
Centennial Square	Crawford	2003	90%
Chesapeake Bay Sunset	Bunting	2007	20%
Chief Four Fingers	Roberts-N.	2002	80%
Chris Fatman Wilson	Glidden	1976	50%
Christmas Coming	Reinke-B.	2006	20%
Cole's Cantuckee Peach	Cole-D.	2006	1%
Counter-Terrorist	Baxter	2006	75%
Delicate One	Reinke-J.	2006	20%
Double Medusa	Gossard	2005	20%
Eight Days a Week	Sayers	2004	99%
Emerald Starburst	Doorakian	2004	15%
Extra Addition	Reinke-B.	2004	85%
Forsyth Tepaled Double	Lefever	1998	60%
Four Diamonds	Roberts-N.	2005	80%
Four-Play	PANSING	1998	90%
Fuchsia Four	Reinke	1995	90%
Full of Fours	Love-R.	1999	85%
Gary's Light	Dovel	2007	85%
Generation X	Dye-C.	1999	60%
George Brossard	Rochelea-M.	2004	10%
Give Me Eight	Reinke	1993	70%
Got No Goat	Baxter	2000	80%
Grapefruit Guts	Millhorn	1998	90%
Hilda Dean	Alleman	2007	95%
Hooded Cobra	Mahieu-Burris	2007	60%
How Should I Bloom	Baxter	2006	40%
I Am Not A Mutant	Baxter	2006	100%
I Have Issues	Baxter	2005	75%
Irish Handshake	Roberts-N.	2002	50%
Janene's Ghost	Forrester	2006	50%
John R. Pike	Doorakian	2004	80%
Josie Crosby	Reinke-B.	2004	5%
Julia's Dream	Mercer-R.	1999	50%
Larry Young's Wow	Sayers	2004	90%
Lillian's Crazy Arms	Manning	2002	80%
Magnolia Poly Princess	Lewis-JE.	2003	90%
Mavis Gwendolyn Carter	Mahieu-Burris	2007	5%
Mermaids Splash	MacDonald-L.	2006	20%
Moana Gloria May	Higgins	1999	75%
Mont Royal Spirit	Reinke-J.	2007	20%
Moosa Pa Loosa	Baxter	2006	20%
Moosie My Love	Baxter	2003	90%
Mountain Laurel Sundayhaus	Smith-T.L.	2006	100%
Mudra	Clover	1999	90%
Mutant Species	Baxter	2006	90%
Mystic Jellyfish	Gossard	2006	50%
Navajo Sand Painting	Bawden	2006	30%
Nawsett Wee Willy Memorial	Foley	2006	50%
Nina Worthy	Amerson	2007	60%
Padmasana	Clover	2000	99%
Pancake Platypus	Baxter	2002	75%
Peck's Poly	Peck-Reinke	2000	70%
Plein Air Paintbrush	Burris	2006	30%
Poly Cupping Up	Reinke-J.	2006	95%
Poly Foxing Around	Forrester	2005	95%
Polymultipetalicious	Unger-J.	2007	99%
Quad Quiddity	Wetzel	2004	75%
Queen Kathleen	Doorakian	2002	25%
Quint Quandary	Wetzel	2004	10%
Release Your Inhibitions	Baxter	2006	95%
Remembering Flo Nix	Herrington-K.	2006	20%
Resistance is Futile	Baxter	2000	85%
Sallie Brown	Reinke	1994	75%
Secret Agent Babe	Baxter	2006	75%
Simple Origita	Golob	2002	70%
Star Poly	Herr-D.	2009	95%
Summon the Shadows	Stoneking-Jones	2001	30%
Sweet Meolon	Scott-B.A.	2009	100%
Swim Bike Run	Baxter	2012	100%
Sylvan Surprise Eights	Hite-Hite	2000	1%
Temporal Anomaly	Bond-M.	2003	50%
Tennoaks Hamunaptra	Pate-K.	2004	65%
The Moose Camped in a Tent on Tuesday	Baxter	2002	90%
Too Many Petals	Baxter	2002	100%
Zastrugi	Hansen-D.	2006	80%

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