Ornamental Features:

Prairie Blue Eyes Daylily features bold lilac purple trumpet-shaped flowers with lemon yellow throats at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Prairie Blue Eyes Daylily is an herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Prairie Blue Eyes Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover

Plant Characteristics:

Prairie Blue Eyes Daylily will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 32 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under typical garden conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.