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

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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