Resources

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Take advantage of all the American Daylily Society has to offer. From our online daylily registration process to free digital presentations, source lists and great publications, we strive to provide many resources to enable our members, hybridizers and daylily fans to grow. Many of our resources are available to non-members to support our mission of helping the world grow great daylilies.

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Download Free Presentations!

If you or your local daylily club have an unforeseen planning emergency with a speaker or program and need something in a pinch, we can help! Members can download presentations for their club or personal use. For FREE, you can download many presentations for your personal use. It is very easy to do.

You can also submit presentations to be shared in this way with other daylily fans. See the link on the available presentations page for more information.

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Have you ever wondered “Who actually registered this Daylily? Where were they from?”

Several long-serving members of our Society, led by Ken Cobb, compiled a list of all of the people who have submitted daylilies to the Daylily Database. They have connected the abbreviated names with as much information as they were able to find, and the results have been published here.

Hybridizer List – Sorted by Abbreviated Name

Hybridizer List – Sorted by Region

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Registering a Daylily

The American Daylily Society is honored to be the official Registrar for the genus. Daylily Registration is the process of documenting the details about a specific cultivar. It is done by the Registrar under the guidelines developed and promulgated by the International Union of Biological Sciences, International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants as published by the International Society for Horticultural Science as the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, often referred to as the ICNCP or Cultivated Plant Code. These guidelines are set forth as horticultural regulations detailing the rules by which a plant can be registered. The Registrar does not have the right to waiver from these rules. Use the arrows below to flip through topics on daylily registration, or continue to the electronic registration process.

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Daylily Registration

How to Register a Daylily

If you're looking to register your first daylily hybrid, or if you haven't done it for a while, check out this simple instructional guide.

Registration Instructions (PDF)

DAYLILY REGISTRATION

Important Questions and Answers

You can save yourself and the Registrar time and frustration if you read through these questions and answers on the registration process. The first question you should ask before starting the registration process is, "does my proposed name already exist as a registered daylily?" You can answer that quickly by using the search tool in our daylily database.

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Daylily Registration

Registration Rules

The Daylily Society is required to follow naming and registration rules that are a part of the ICNCP (International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants). As such, we ask that you review the rules before submitting your daylilies for registration.

View Registration Rules (PDF)

Daylily Registration

Frequently Used Terms and Abbreviations

Descriptive terms and abbreviations used when registering daylilies are explained here. This is a living list, and if you have suggestions, please submit them to registrar@daylilies.org

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Daylily Dictionary

Explore a living list of terms related to the daylily and learn more about your favorite perennial.

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The Daylily Journal

Get to know the flowers and the people in our quarterly publication of the American Daylily Society- included with your membership.

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Grants / Scholarships

We are pleased to solicit applications for a grants from students/faculty/staff using daylilies in original research projects.

Apply or review recent awards

Daylily Merchandise

Shop for fun daylily merchandise in our external Zazzle store.

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American Daylily Society Publications

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Shop our latest publications on Amazon. You can purchase any of our books or judges manuals easily and online now! Clubs who wish to order in bulk should contact the Publication Sales Manager.

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Articles and Resources from the Archives

Members enjoy access to an expanded collection of articles and resources from the archives. This sample below is some of our favorite articles from the past, including reflections on the society’s 70 year history. Use the JOIN US link at the top of this page to enjoy the full range of benefits!

American Daylily Society Reflections:

Reflections on 50 Years Ago. Click here. (Updated 2011)
Reflections on 25 Years Ago. Click here. (Updated 2009)

Samples from the members-only collection:

Three Articles on Daylily Seed Topics by Dr. Robert H. Griesbach. Click here.
The Art of Hybridizing (seven part series) by Oscie Whatley. Click here.
Hybridizing With Converted Tetraploids (4 part series) by Oscie Whatley. Click here

The AHS Archives Fund exists to help meet the costs of the acquisition and care of historical materials relevant to Hemerocallis, and to the American Daylily Society and its people and events. Such materials may include books, newspaper and magazine articles, records of the business of the Society itself, theses and dissertations, photographic or digital documents or collections of enduring value, or other pertinent items associated with daylilies or the society. Significantly, the fund allows for the purchase of specialized software and equipment needed, but not covered in the annual budget of the Archives and History Committee. If you wish to contribute to this fund, please click this link and specify the Archives Fund.

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