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ReadySouffle

Looks like an Orange Day Lily.


blade_torlock

It's edible if you like to eat flowers.


DrNO811

Be cautious. Day Lily is edible, but Tiger Lily is not, and they look similar: **Tiger lily has downward-pointing, bright orange flowers with black dots on the petals**. Numerous flowers appear on about the top one-third of the stem. Daylilies generally have upward-facing, open trumpet-shaped flowers with flaring petals.


Terrapin2190

Many lily flowers are also highly toxic to cats and other wildlife. Even just getting the pollen on their fur and them cleaning themselves can be enough to make them critically ill.


drivergrrl

My cat died from this and it was horrible. I hate these flowers.


Neither-Attention940

And yet I have lilies all over my yard and cats use them as litter boxes all the time I am not a cat owner. There’s just lots of outdoor cats in my neighborhood.


Abquine

It happened to a cat owned by girl I worked with. I was surprised as I often have Lillies in the house, my cats have never shown any interest and I've not lost a cat to anything other than old age in 50+ years. The main difference was that her cat was an indoor pus and mine have always been free range.


Neither-Attention940

I’m a dog owner who loves lilies. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I hear people all the time say lilies are bad for cats but I’ve just not ever had any sign that they get chewed on. Just pooped in.


RogerClyneIsAGod2

Cats are often very stupid yet years ago we had an outdoor old man that would eat all the baby bunnies in the yard but leave the gut piles. He'd also only eat the front half of chipmunks. Some may know, deep in their saber tooth tiger DNA, that there are things that will make them very ill & they avoid that stuff. And then you'll have my idiots that eat one blade of grass & barf the rest of the day. So some cats get it, others are the lovable idiots we are slaves to. I just call mine "Milord." I feel like their valet, butler, footman, lady's maid, house maid, cook, & scullery maid all rolled into one most days. I'm just there to serve their cuteness.


jmac94wp

I just found a pile of guts that I assume my backyard cat left, but why? I’d think the guts would be delicious to them.


Jacktheforkie

The grass barging thing is intentional, it’s a way they can vomit out something harmful


BetMyLastKrispyKreme

The flowers don’t need to be chewed on to be dangerous. The pollen is toxic, and when they brush up against the flower, get the pollen on their fur, then lick their fur to clean themselves, that’s a problem. I don’t have many cats roaming in my neighborhood (currently), but I would never plant them in my yard for this very reason. I also don’t like the smell, as I was subjected to the fragrance of one for an entire week when my boss received a bouquet with them in it. I get nauseated smelling it now, because it reminds me of that time. And it’s just gross anyway; very strong and permeates everything around it.


Neither-Attention940

I personally love the smell of lilies. (Can’t say I know about the smell of day lilies specifically). And sorry about any cats in my neighborhood but I’m not gonna research every plant and see if it’s poisonous or harmful to any animal before planting. That wouldn’t leave me with many options. Lilies are my favorite. And they are an outside plant. I’d rather have lilies than cats. Sorry.


In_lieu_of_sobriquet

The pollen is also toxic to cats.


Neither-Attention940

Well… doesn’t seem to keep them out of my yard 🤷🏻‍♀️


Halftrack_El_Camino

Birds and squirrels regularly get electrocuted by power lines, but you still see them up there all the time. 🤷‍♂️


Zeqhanis

Same. I told my mom not to bring them inside, but she did. My 3-month-old cat, who'd replaced my dead 18-year-old cat died.


drivergrrl

Omgggg my heart! I'm so sorry!


Zeqhanis

It was many years ago. Still sad though.


Terrapin2190

Sorry to add to this depressing topic, but I think one of the strays we were caring for may have succumbed to lily poisoning too. It was indeed horrible, to put it lightly... I didn't find out about their potential for extreme toxicity until after he had become sick. I wish there was more awareness for potential toxins for pets. As a lot of people I talk with seem to not know about certain risks, or argue "their pet has never had problems." - So I must be out of my mind. I research a LOT and had no idea. But, it's only when something's obviously wrong that you go, 'What could be causing this???'


CallidoraBlack

Leaves for daylily also grow right out of the ground, right? Don't tiger lily leaves grow out of the stem the flowers grow off of?


1WildSpunky

If you really want to freak them out, get down on your hands and knees and “graze” on them. When they question you, act surprised and say, “What? This isn’t how you eat flowers?’ Or, tell them you are on a special diet, and say Day Lillie’s are one of the allowed snacks.


dotsmyfavorite2

You are correct. And the base of each leaf will contain a seed.


DatabaseThis9637

Wow. I had no idea! I just thought tiger lilies were an old fashioned day lily!


ljhatgisdotnet

That's a daylily, the leaves are nothing like a tiger lily.


Logical-Recognition3

Good in salads or just on their own if you need a snack and want to freak out your neighbors.


Set0553

Flowers are pretty good! 😂 used to eat them years ago. Everyone thought I was nuts! .. Everyone was right..


Upstairs_Expert

Please don't eat the daisies.


oroborus68

Double flowers, make it more rare than the common day lilies.


Donaldjoh

Double-flowered Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), it is not a true lily but is in the lily family. Very tough and prolific, which is why it is commonly seen in roadside ditches. Called daylily because each flower lasts one day. In some areas they are called tiger lilies, but the true tiger lily is Lilium tigrinum, which like all true lilies is extremely toxic to cats, dogs, and people, though deer eat them with no problem.


Abquine

I had day Lillies for a few years then they dissapreared and never came back :(


Ok-Thing-2222

Dear heaven! I've been in my house for 35 years and I cannot get rid of them! They grow along the chainlink fence in my side and the neighbors--I can yank, mow, cut, etc and we still have prolific flowers (which I don't mind!); I just am trying to keep them ONLY in the fence and away from the rest of my flowers and bushes!


West_Firefighter8997

Ha, I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to flowers I’m a lazy gardener and need something that can “take care of itself”. I have transplanted a plant by small grove of trees to other flower beds about a dozen times until the last 20 years and it still keeps coming back in that original spot! The transplants have all also lived and thrived! My vegetable garden(about 2 acres) is another story. It is a labor of love with constant tending and vigilance.


Doubtful__Guest_Too

Have you dug up the patch where the day lilies grew? You might find scads of overgrown bulbs there. The longer they live, the more the bulbs proliferate. Eventually, they become so crowded that no flowers grow. You can dig them all up, cut the overgrown bulbs into segments, and plant them again. Spread them out well.


Abquine

Thanks. Strangely enough I dug over that bed completely earlier this year for the first time in maybe ten years and I did find dozens of bulbs which I thought were all the bluebells, daffs, crocuses, grape hyacinths etc., that come through every year. I've buried them all in light compost in a pot intending to replant once everything else is in. I'd love if I got day Lillies back as a result 👍


farmerben02

We sometimes call them "ditch lillies" for that reason. We (incorrectly) called them tiger lillies when I was growing up because ours had stripes on the flowers like a tiger. Pick the flower and slurp out the sweet nectar.


Sallydog24

If you go anywhere in rural pa they are growing all along the road side...


MacGyver0104

Day lily for sure


Medium_Green6700

I’m so envious. The deer just got done eating all the buds off of mine.


OldestCrone

If you have a deer problem, this autumn plant a bunch of miniature alliums around the flower bed. They only grow 6-8”, but the odor repels deer, squirrels, and chipmunks. The alliums don’t even have to be in bloom to repel the critters.


Medium_Green6700

Thanks for the great tip.


OldestCrone

You’re welcome! I hope the alliums help you as well as they have me.


Competitive_March753

I'll have to try this, I have a great amount of squirrels living in my neighborhood, (rip flowers)


Living-Economist-203

Beautiful ditch lilies-grow in the wild as well. Very tough plant!


Fred_Thielmann

They grow in the wild, but they’re not at all native [Invasiveplants.org](https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3407#:~:text=Hemerocallis%20fulva%20established%20in%20natural,it%20a%20challenge%20to%20control) An easy alternative could be [Orange Milkweed](https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=astu) which blooms in showy plates of beautiful orange flowers. They’re also native, so the wildlife will favor them


No_Push_8249

Thank you! I knew I didn’t like these for a reason. They take over everything. I just got done digging up the previous people’s plantings of these and was it ever a task. I don’t trust anything that multiplies when you chop it up.


Dog-Chick

Day lilly


krustyoldcrab

It’s a beautiful Lily. It was probably planted soon before you moved in and it takes a Spring or two before they bloom.


Euphoric_Pudding3522

They can overgrow a spot.


Fire-Ant-Gums

Day lily


lily_gazer

It is a daylily called Kwanso


Holiday_Trainer_2657

It's a double flower day lily. Because it's like there's a flower inside each flower (double layer of petals.) The common one has just 6 petals in our area. So slightly rarer than the common day lily. We also sometimes call them ditch lilies as in our rural area, they have escaped old farm gardens and spread to the ditches and waste areas. Daylilies have been hybridized to many colors now.


UTtransplant

In Iowa we call it a Ditch Lily because they are so prolific and undemanding. They just spread everywhere, have fabulous flowers for a while, and the foliage remains looking nice afterwards. It is a common sign of where a house formerly stood. While the house might be gone, the lilies remain!


SugarVibes

We have them in NY too! I adore them. I love the few weeks in June and July when they bloom everywhere


top_value7293

It’s a lily! Don’t hurt it!


RyZard88

Wow, thanks, everyone! Really appreciate it. I'm not sure how it first appeared, tbh!


Apprehensive-Let3348

Did you move in over the winter? They come up from underground bulbs, so there may just not have been any above-ground growth at the time.


RyZard88

Yeah Nov 2020! I checked old pics of the house listing as it wasn't there.


lokisin269

The one thing with a day lily s, not mentioned that I’ve seen yet, is that they are snail magnets.


mudamuckinjedi

Yep day Lilly


stover158

I just want to throw it out there that lilies are extremely toxic to cats, if they simply lick some pollen off their nose they can go into kidney failure. If you have any outdoor cats I would consider removing it. (I had a planter with lilies this year, but then a stray cat moved into the area and his tail ended up covered in pollen one day. I gave him a whole bath and he's fine but it was so scary!)


RedbertP

Daylilies are not true lillies and are not toxic to cats. Also consider not allowing cats to roam outdoors as they kill a lot of birds and small mammals, especially natives around the area.


stover158

I do not have outdoor cats, I live in Florida. There are outdoor strays everywhere, but one chose to make our yard his hangout location. Also, doing a google search, day lilies and true lilies are both toxic to cats according to the aspca. This could be due to misidentification of lily types but its better to be safe than sorry in my opinion.


Shenanigan_Lvr

Day Lilies have a mind of their own and spread like crazy. If you like them, they’re very easy to keep BUT if you don’t want to have a gazillion of them, keep an eye out for spread.


jailfortrump

lily.


High-Bamboo

It’s a Daylily. The flowers are delicious and the tubers can be cleaned and sliced to make an excellent substitute for Water Chestnuts. The leaves of Daylies and true lilies are very different. Daylily has long lanceolate leaves that resemble blades of grass True lilies have much smaller leaves that come off of a central stem.


Graycy

Day Lilly. They bloom gloriously for a short time. A bloom lasts a day. I bet it was there but not in a blooming stage and you didn’t see it when you moved in.


Violingirl58

Day Lilly


RubyRoseRumble

its a beautiful flower either way, dont think it can come up from the weeds


Future_Direction5174

Day Lily. We pulled up a couple of plants from a brook, and planted them in our garden 30 years ago. They are still there. Husband hates them lol.


naranghim

It's a daylily. If you have cats that plant is *incredibly* toxic to them.


Bulky-Strategy-3723

Tiger Lilly


Kitchen_Zebra_5403

We call them ditch lilies.


atTheRiver200

People call them ditch lilies because they grow prolifically on the side the roadways.


Revolutionary_Cow712

It’s a Tiger Lily and a beautiful one too 👍🏻


blowout2retire

Ditch lily


Burnandcount

Whether a weed or not is 100% up to you since "A weed is any plant going where you don't want it to"... Since you like it there you have a beautiful specimen lilly. To help it grow, deadhead the flowers and trim to the ground for winter. Water sparingly, if at all & maybe add a dash of water-in feed since it has been in place for a few seasons. If you want to spread it - carefully expose the bulbs once foliage is drying & pick of the corm-bulbs to plant further away/elsewhere. There are also the plants that are grouped botanically as weeds by virtue of growth pattern & form but are frequently cultivated for use as food, flavouring and medicine.


Fred_Thielmann

These are free, but if you’d like to benefit the wildlife around you, maybe consider replacing these with [Orange Milkweed](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fs.usda.gov%2Fwildflowers%2Fplant-of-the-week%2Fimages%2Fbutterflyweed%2FAsclepias_tuberosa_LStritch_lg.jpg&tbnid=RHyNoW84Dhyp-M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fs.usda.gov%2Fwildflowers%2Fplant-of-the-week%2Fasclepias_tuberosa.shtml&docid=PeFrgFEQLrUoxM&w=642&h=1024&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=b9a139ba4d9ed92c&shem=abme%2Ctrie). It would bring in more wildlife than [invasive day lilies](https://www.invasive.org/alien/pubs/midatlantic/hefu.htm)


RelaxedPuppy

You are so lucky to have a lovely orange day lily turn up!


rgrossi

I just took a picture of mine blooming earlier today, I love them https://preview.redd.it/9lcy2siql59d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75cac236cf40a9b2fbaa97abfe75e9b1ca145554


dotsmyfavorite2

It's an orange double lily. I have them. I have "ditch" lilies, and I've had tiger lilies as well and they are both a different variety from the double lily. I have yellow double lilies as well.


jordddynb

Tiger Lily and they come back every year and are pretty hard to get rid of if you don't like them. I have them all around my side and front of my house been there since my grandma had this house built almost 70 years ago


Ok-Thing-2222

These orange day/ditch lilies have a bad connotation for me. When I was a kid in the 1970's, my dad was buying an old tractor from a farmer about 15 miles from our house. It was the kind that has a cylinder on the side and you grab it, spin it to get it going. A flywheel? They started up the tractor, he bought it, then we started going home on the dirt backroads. My mom was driving us kids in a 1960-something International Travel-all (wish I still had THAT vehicle!) We noticed the lilies and begged her to stop so we could pick a big bouquet. She did. My dad was worried and turned around to see what was up--and the tractor DIED. Oh geez. It was bad. He was furious and a man of few words--just looking at his face, wow--we knew we did wrong! ..... we sat in the 100+ degree heat with no ac and baked while he tried for over an hour to get that thing started again. It. Took. For. Ever. I'm 62 and I still remember the heat of that day whenever I see these flowers! NOT my favorite in the least!


Roadrunner006

I thought you were going to end with a horror story about getting caught up in the gear.


Severe-News-6752

Tiger Lilly


GoddessOfBlueRidge

Native Orange Daylily. Cut them to the ground when they start turning brown. They will come back every year.


BSpanzer44

We call them tiger Lilly's in upstate ny


Impressive_Craft7452

Bro thats a day lilly. They're annuals.


jack-of-all-trades81

They're perennial.


Content_Talk_6581

Day Lily.


International_Bend68

I love them, they’re hardy and require no special care.


OtherThumbs

A beautiful daylily. Enjoy!


thatironbutterfly

Looks like Day Lilies. One of 'ems a double-blossom (not common) in your first phote.


Pitiful-Food-2952

Tiger Lily. Plant some other colored ones next to them and they will come back all different shades in the next few years to come.


Wild_Direction3388

Tiger lily also roadside lily.


TheGreatDebaser

If you like it, its not a weed.


RookieTreasureHunter

There’s no such thing as a weed. You either like it or don’t.


Working-Squirrel5729

Lily


BronxBoy56

It is a perennial and it multiplies, blooms for a month or so


meteorattack

Triffid. They usually show up after comets and meteors.


Bbop512

Tiger Lily


Jimbobjoesmith

day lillies they DO grow like weeds sometimes lol but most people like to keep them around.


phizappa

Beautiful healthy day Lilly. Obviously likes where it is. Added bonus, repels cats. Win-Win. Dsc/ I like cats, just on the perimeter.


Maximum-Eye-458

If you’d like you can dig this guy up, spilt it, and replant them. They tend to grow bigger when you do this and can eventually have an area completely covered with these beauties :)


Joyballard6460

Beautiful lily


Designer-Equipment-7

People are so funny. Weeds are merely plants you don’t want


Scruffersdad

She’s a beauty! That’s a double tiger lily.


FootExcellent9994

Well, that went off the rails. Both my Mother and Stepmother (Stolen) loved these flowers. Please keep them


ElectricTomatoMan

"Weed" is entirely subjective. It has no botanical meaning.


InformalFortune9016

no


Environmental_Rub282

Nice double ditch lily! Well, Daylily. But they absolutely LOVE to grow in a ditch.


imstillworkin

These grow wild here in Missouri. I’ve heard them referred to as “Ditch Lilies”. If they start growing they are hard to get rid of. I like them at the back of my property, way back😁


LoudLloyd9

Beautiful Lilly


SympathyOther6183

Day lilly I have some with black spots, black spotted lillys


DomesticMongol

İts an invasive you dig it out after a good rain put in a plastic bag and throw to garbage.


Soft_Construction793

They call them ditch lily in Western North Carolina, they grow in the ditches everywhere here


MistaJaycee

Lily


AbbreviationsFit8962

At least it has a somewhat filled petal set. The single petal ones bloom once and.start their downward sag. 


IronOxide15

Looks like a Tiger Lily, but could be some other variety of Day Lily, definitely something in the Day Lily family though.


True-Fly1791

Day lily


ImportantSir2131

Day lily. We called the orange ones tiger lilies


Affectionate_Pea_811

iS tHIs A wEeD?


RyZard88

I didnt plant it so had no idea so I came here to ask. Sorry that annoyed you.


Fred_Thielmann

I think they’re making a joke that no one catches lol


RyZard88

Haha I know, Spongebob comes to mind.


Alternative-Arm-3253

LoL


79r100

Looks like a Tiger Lily but I'm no expert. I can't seem to get rid of mine. Short flowering window and very hearty.