Introduced: 1937 |
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In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
" The Saturn daylily was obtained after several generations of selective hybridizations which involved as parents Hemerocallis flava, H. fulva clone Europa, a wild plant of H. fulva from Japan, and H. multiflora. The general habit of the plant is that of an erect H. multiflora, only more robust and with larger flowers of delicate fulvous colors. At New York the period of blooming has been from about June 15 to July 15.
The foliage is nearly dormant in winter. The scares are much branched and stiffly erect to a height of from 3 to 4 feet. The flowers are numerous, about 3 inches across, widely spreading and full; the throat is apricot-yellow; the petals have an eye zone of vinaceous rufous, beyond which is an area of ochraceous orange, and there is a marginal border of almost clear apricot-yellow. The sepals are somewhat less strongly eyed and they are reddish fulvous on the back. The marginal band of paler color in the open flower is somewhat more noticeable than in other seedlings or named clones which the writer has thus far seen. "
( cited from: Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1937, vol. 38, p. 60-61 )