Hemerocallis minorMill.

dwarf yellow day lilysmall daylily

WFO wfo-0000655400 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. a Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-14 / obs. 205989969
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158415883
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Елена Радостева
fig. c Елена Радостева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140593171
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Владимир Преловский
fig. d Владимир Преловский, CC0 1.0 / obs. 139500565
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. e Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138278505
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. f Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137601096
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. g Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137797099
Hemerocallis minor, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110383494

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Hemerocallis minor is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Hemerocallis minor, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 96 in flower of 101 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Hemerocallis minor observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 96 of 101 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hemerocallis flava var. minor (Mill.) M.Hotta
  • Hemerocallis graminea Andrews
  • Hemerocallis graminifolia Schltdl.
  • Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus subsp. minor (Mill.) Z.T.Xiong
  • Hemerocallis pumila Salisb.
  • Hemerocallis sulphurea Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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