This day lily flower is well adapted to the Missouri climate and through several spectacular gardens, became the inspiration for this series of Orange, Purple, Pink, and Yellow. The tenderness of this shade of pink is like nothing else. In this hue, the flower is large-petaled, so that the color can expand through a paleness that goes white in the highlights, and stays subtle in its pinkest shadows. It is a certain shade of mauve, pink, lavender and gives the heavy flower an extra lift. The Day lily series is superb as a group, since each of the four match and contrast so well.