Bobby Baxter's Polymerous Daylily Database... the flowers formerly known as polytepals
 

CAROLINA FLYING POLY POSSUM by Bobby Baxter

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
Bobby Baxter


Happy Moose Gardens

 

Ranked By polymerous Percentage

These polymerous daylilies are arranged in order of polymerous percentage (highest to lowest). Click the cultivar name to view master detail information.

Cultivar Name Hybridizer Reg. Year Poly %
Centennial Gambler's Dream Crawford 1998 100%
I Am Not A Mutant Baxter 2006 100%
Mountain Laurel Sundayhaus Smith-T.L. 2006 100%
Sweet Meolon Scott-B.A. 2009 100%
Swim Bike Run Baxter 2012 100%
Too Many Petals Baxter 2002 100%
Eight Days a Week Sayers 2004 99%
Padmasana Clover 2000 99%
Polymultipetalicious Unger-J. 2007 99%
Aslan's Mane King-M. 2001 95%
Hilda Dean Alleman 2007 95%
Polar Wind Kent-J. 2007 95%
Poly Cupping Up Reinke-J. 2006 95%
Poly Foxing Around Forrester 2005 95%
Release Your Inhibitions Baxter 2006 95%
Star Poly Herr-D. 2009 95%
Carolina Flying Poly Possum Baxter 2002 90%
Centennial Gold Dream Crawford 2003 90%
Centennial Square Crawford 2003 90%
Four-Play PANSING 1998 90%
Fuchsia Four Reinke 1995 90%
Grapefruit Guts Millhorn 1998 90%
Larry Young's Wow Sayers 2004 90%
Magnolia Poly Princess Lewis-JE. 2003 90%
Moosie My Love Baxter 2003 90%
Mudra Clover 1999 90%
Mutant Species Baxter 2006 90%
The Moose Camped in a Tent on Tuesday Baxter 2002 90%
Extra Addition Reinke-B. 2004 85%
Full of Fours Love-R. 1999 85%
Gary's Light Dovel 2007 85%
Resistance is Futile Baxter 2000 85%
Boot Scoot'n County San Joaquin Stoneking-Jones 2002 80%
Centennial Eight Crawford 2003 80%
Chief Four Fingers Roberts-N. 2002 80%
Four Diamonds Roberts-N. 2005 80%
Got No Goat Baxter 2000 80%
John R. Pike Doorakian 2004 80%
Lillian's Crazy Arms Manning 2002 80%
Magical Indeed Petit 2005 80%
Zastrugi Hansen-D. 2006 80%
Beware the Wizard Couturier-G. 1995 75%
Counter-Terrorist Baxter 2006 75%
Heliosphere Patton 2006 75%
Hypnotized Petit 2005 75%
I Have Issues Baxter 2005 75%
Moana Gloria May Higgins 1999 75%
Pancake Platypus Baxter 2002 75%
Poly Parrot Morss 2007 75%
Quad Quiddity Wetzel 2004 75%
Sallie Brown Reinke 1994 75%
Secret Agent Babe Baxter 2006 75%
Give Me Eight Reinke 1993 70%
Peck's Poly Peck-Reinke 2000 70%
Simple Origita Golob 2002 70%
Carolina Octopus Baxter 2002 65%
Tennoaks Hamunaptra Pate-K. 2004 65%
Centennial Brady William Crawford 2003 60%
Centennial Four Moons Crawford 2003 60%
Centennial Purple Drum Crawford 2003 60%
Forsyth Tepaled Double Lefever 1998 60%
Generation X Dye-C. 1999 60%
Great Sand Dunes National Park Stoneking-Jones 2002 60%
Hip To Be Square Norris-R. 2007 60%
Hooded Cobra Mahieu-Burris 2007 60%
Kay's Southern Elegance Stoneking-Jones 2001 60%
Nina Worthy Amerson 2007 60%
Ambrosia Sundayhaus Smith-T.L. 2004 50%
Bee's Marcia Rigsby Downie 2003 50%
Chris Fatman Wilson Glidden 1976 50%
Han-lin Dickerson 2004 50%
Irish Handshake Roberts-N. 2002 50%
Janene's Ghost Forrester 2006 50%
Julia's Dream Mercer-R. 1999 50%
Mystic Jellyfish Gossard 2006 50%
Nawsett Wee Willy Memorial Foley 2006 50%
Osterized Hite-Davisson 1999 50%
Temporal Anomaly Bond-M. 2003 50%
Bachelor's Dream Holzrichter 2004 40%
How Should I Bloom Baxter 2006 40%
Navajo Sand Painting Bawden 2006 30%
Plein Air Paintbrush Burris 2006 30%
Summon the Shadows Stoneking-Jones 2001 30%
Take Care Zolock 2000 30%
Banjo Bird Reed 2006 25%
Flint Hills Show Girl Walker-G.V. 2005 25%
Queen Kathleen Doorakian 2002 25%
Warna Byczynski 2007 25%
Ann A Santaniello Corbeil 2007 20%
As You Wish Murphy-J.P. 2005 20%
Bluegrass Bubblegum Burris 2005 20%
Bob Daniel Burris 2005 20%
Bring Home The Gold Polston 2007 20%
Butterfield Eight Reinke-B. 2004 20%
Chesapeake Bay Sunset Bunting 2007 20%
Christmas Coming Reinke-B. 2006 20%
Delicate One Reinke-J. 2006 20%
Double Medusa Gossard 2005 20%
Dowis Mama's Best Stackman-Denham 2000 20%
Mermaids Splash MacDonald-L. 2006 20%
Mont Royal Spirit Reinke-J. 2007 20%
Moosa Pa Loosa Baxter 2006 20%
Remembering Flo Nix Herrington-K. 2006 20%
Sun Moon Stars Morry 2006 20%
Awaba Sunray Charman 2005 15%
Emerald Starburst Doorakian 2004 15%
Greywoods Dixie Belle Wilkinson 2003 15%
Greywoods Dressage Queen Wilkinson 2002 15%
George Brossard Rochelea-M. 2004 10%
Heavenly Starfire Gossard 2001 10%
I Got Bingo Paine-Rochester 2002 10%
Lisa Inez Glassford 2004 10%
Lordy Mercy Olson-E. 2005 10%
Mary Lou Johnson Kepf 2004 10%
Midnight Rendezvous Corbett 2005 10%
Quint Quandary Wetzel 2004 10%
Dressed in Lace Scott-E. 2004 7%
Ajure Sunrise Smith-T.L. 2006 5%
Bedford 275 Anniversary Doorakian 2004 5%
Josie Crosby Reinke-B. 2004 5%
Love and Dazzle Lamb-K. 2006 5%
Mavis Gwendolyn Carter Mahieu-Burris 2007 5%
Cole's Cantuckee Peach Cole-D. 2006 1%
Linden Fantasy Waring 2006 1%
Sylvan Surprise Eights Hite-Hite 2000 1%

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