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Welcome to our Shop by Color guide, created to help you understand how colors are described and categorized within daylilies. The color names and descriptive terms listed below reflect the wide range of hues, tones, blends, patterns, eyes, edges, and other color characteristics found among daylily cultivars.
Each listed term can also be
Welcome to our Shop by Color guide, created to help you understand how colors are described and categorized within daylilies. The color names and descriptive terms listed below reflect the wide range of hues, tones, blends, patterns, eyes, edges, and other color characteristics found among daylily cultivars.
Each listed term can also be used as a keyword in our shop catalogue. Simply type a color or descriptive term into the catalogue search to view daylilies that fit that category. Whether you are following a landscaping plan, coordinating blooms with an existing garden palette, or exploring new color combinations, this page will give you useful search ideas and help you locate daylilies that suit your design.

Apricot and melon are warm, inviting colors associated with softness, sweetness, and summer abundance. In daylilies, they appear as blends of peach, coral, cantaloupe, and soft orange, often with pink or yellow undertones.

Pink symbolizes affection, grace, tenderness, and romantic charm. In daylilies, it ranges from pale blush and rose to coral-pink and vivid hot pink, though most blooms retain warm peach, red, or lavender undertones.

Red symbolizes passion, vitality, strength, and urgency, drawing much of its power from its connection to blood and fire. In daylilies, it ranges from bright scarlet and crimson to deep burgundy and maroon, often with orange, purple, or brown undertones.

Yellow represents sunlight, happiness, optimism, and lively energy. In daylilies, it ranges from pale lemon and primrose to strong canary yellow, usually presenting as a clear, bright base color.

Gold represents radiance, abundance, prestige, and the richness of sunlight. In daylilies, it appears as a deep, saturated yellow with warm amber, honey, or orange undertones and a richer effect than standard yellow.

Orange conveys warmth, enthusiasm, creativity, and the glowing energy of fire and sunlight. In daylilies, it ranges from clear tangerine and pumpkin to deep burnt orange, sometimes carrying red, gold, or copper undertones.

Brown suggests earthiness, warmth, stability, and an understated richness. In daylilies, it usually appears as russet, cinnamon, mahogany, bronze, or coffee tones created by blends of red, orange, yellow, or purple pigments.

Green symbolizes renewal, balance, growth, and the vitality of the natural world. In daylilies, it appears most clearly in the throat and may extend into the petals as chartreuse, lime, olive, or cool greenish tones.

Purple symbolizes imagination, dignity, mystery, and richness. In daylilies, it ranges from red-violet and plum to deep grape tones, often appearing strongest in eyes, edges, and patterned markings.

Lavender suggests calm, refinement, delicacy, and quiet enchantment. In daylilies, it appears as a softened purple with cool pink, blue-violet, gray, or silvery undertones rather than a true botanical lavender hue.

Near black conveys mystery, elegance, drama, and visual intensity. In daylilies, it refers to extremely dark shades of purple, red, burgundy, or brown that appear almost black, especially in certain lighting.

Near white symbolizes purity, simplicity, serenity, and luminous elegance. In daylilies, it describes very pale cream, ivory, yellow, pink, or lavender blooms that appear white but retain a subtle underlying tint.

Dark colors convey richness, depth, drama, and visual intensity. In daylilies, the bloom is dominated by deeply saturated shades such as burgundy, plum, mahogany, or near black.

Light colors suggest freshness, openness, delicacy, and gentle luminosity. In daylilies, the bloom presents as a pale or lightly saturated version of a color while remaining clearer than pastel or muted tones.

Pastel and muted colors convey softness, calm, subtlety, and understated elegance. In daylilies, they appear as gently softened or subdued hues with reduced saturation, often carrying creamy, gray, dusty, or smoky undertones.

Polychrome describes a complex interplay of several colors, creating visual depth, movement, and variation. In daylilies, three or more hues blend across the petals and sepals rather than forming sharply separated markings.

Bitone creates gentle contrast and tonal harmony within a single-color family. In daylilies, the petals and sepals are different shades or intensities of the same basic color.

Bicolor combines two distinct colors to create clear contrast and visual interest. In daylilies, the petals display one color while the sepals display another noticeably different color.

A patterned eye adds intricacy, movement, and decorative character to the bloom. In daylilies, the eye zone displays distinct markings such as bands, rings, rays, chevrons, feathers, or other repeated designs.

A broken eye creates an irregular, artistic effect rather than a continuous band of color. In daylilies, the eye zone is interrupted, fragmented, or unevenly distributed across the petals.
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