STAMEN:

Each typical flower has six stamens attached at the base of the petals. Each stamen has a stalk called the filament that ends with a two-lobed anther filled with dust-like yellow pollen. The pollen is haploid and contains the sperm cells.

 

PISTIL:

The central female reproductive organ around which the other flower parts are arranged. At the base is the ovary, where the seeds develop. A long style extends from this. The tip is swollen and flared to form the stigma. The stigma receives the pollen.

 

MIDRIB:

The principal lengthwise vein of a leaf or of a perianth segment (petals and sepals).

 

THROAT :

1.) The centermost inner section of a daylily bloom where the pistil and stamens join to the back of the bloom.

2.) Deep 'in' the flower is usually seen at least one different color, which sometimes greatly enhances the overall effect of a flower's bloom. An example would be a deep green throat on a red daylily, which enhances the 'redness' seen by a our eyes.

3.) The part of the bloom where the frogs, ants, earwigs and spiders hang out when you're photographing the flower.

 

SEPAL:

The three perianth segments that form the outer whorl of a typical daylily flower.

 

PROLIFERATION:

A leafy shoot from a node or bract found on scapes of many cultivars. Proliferations may be rooted to form a plant (clone) identical to the mother plant. Small roots often form and occasionally a flower is produced while the proliferation is still on the scape.

 

FOLIAGE:

1.) The combined mass of leaves of a plant.
2.) The portion of a daylily above the crown, excluding bloom scapes,which consists of individual alternating leaves grouped into fans.
3.) The leaves of a plant whose primary job is to produce food through photosynthesis.

 

CROWN:

The small white core located between leaves and roots, that is the modified stem of the daylily plant. Some crown tissue must be present for any daylily division to be viable.

 

ROOTS:

A part of the plant (usually underground) whose function is to act as support and anchorage, as a place of food storage and the primary organ of water and mineral absorption.

Some daylily roots are fibrous or cord-like, others very fine; some have conspicuous spindle-like thickenings (used primarily for water storage) as in "Europa."

 

LEAF, LEAVES:

A lateral outgrowth from the crown of a daylily plant; each leaf is a single unit of the foliage of a daylily. A group of leaves growing from the same central crown create a fan or ramet. The leaves principle function is the manufacture food for the plant via photosynthesis.

 

SCAPE:

A flower stalk without leaves. The daylily flower scape has no leaves except some modified leaves called bracts. The scape is the entire flower stalk above the crown.

 

PETAL:

The inner whorl of perianth segments of a typical daylily flower, but excluding the petaloid stamens of a double daylily.

 

SPENT BLOOM:

Each daylily bloom lasts a single day. The day after a bloom has been open it will have withered and melted into a condition referred to as a spent bloom. This process is known as sensescence. Most daylilies will slough off these spent blooms in 2-3 days by themselves, but gardeners may also elect to deadhead their plants to remove the spent blooms. This practice makes the garden neater and also helps prevent the formation of seed pods that are not wanted.

 

BUD:

1.) A young and undeveloped leaf, flower or shoot; meristemic tissue enclosed by modified leaves; terminal and lateral buds.

 

POD:

The fruit of the daylily in which seed develops and ripens. Technically, it is a "loculicidal capsule," meaning that its walls become dry and then split when the seeds are ripe. Pods form if the flower has been fertilized. If you deadhead your plants, they will not form pods.