Clump-forming rosette or evergreen tuberous or fleshy-rooted herb to 1.5 m high from a short rhizome. Leaves several, annual or perennial, linear-lanceolate. Inflorescence a few-branched panicle, hollow. Flowers several, spreading, to 80 mm wide, scentless, lasting one day; spring to autumn.Tepals orange to brownishor reddish-orange, with or without a darker central stipe.

China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia.

Grown as a hardy garden ornamental on a wide range of soils in full sun to light shade.

var. aurantiaca (Bak.) M. Hotta from China, Japan and Korea is an evergreen herb. Flowers single, orange to reddish, lacking dark bands, patches or stripes.

var. fulva from China and Korea is a deciduous herb. Flowers single, brownishorange with a darker reddish central patch, band or stripe on each tepal.

var. kwanso Regel is known only in cultivation. It is a deciduous herb. Flowers double, stamens petal-like.Tepals brownish-orange with a darker reddish central patch, band or stripe on each tepal.

Source: Conran, J. (2005). Hemerocallidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.