plant named ‘Honey Barbeque’

Botanical classification:(L.) hybrid.

Variety denomination: ‘Honey Barbeque’.

The new cultivar was registered in 2025 with the American Daylily Society which is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for the genuswith a brief description and photograph. No plants of‘Honey Barbeque’ have been sold in this country or anywhere in the world, nor has any disclosure of the new plant been made more than one year prior to the filing date of this application and such sale or disclosure within one year was either derived directly or indirectly from the inventor.

The present invention relates to a new and distinct daylily plant,‘Honey Barbeque’ hereinafter also referred to as the new plant or just the cultivar name ‘Honey Barbeque’.‘Honey Barbeque’ was hybridized on Jul. 10, 2013, in a trial garden at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Michigan, USA. The female or seed parent was ‘Black Eyed Stella’ (not patented) and the male or pollen parent was ‘Kokomo Sunset’ (not patented).

The new plant was selected as a single seedling from this cross, and after confidential evaluations in a trial bed beginning in 2015 at the same nursery, the new plant was assigned the breeder code 13-5-3. The new plant has been asexually propagated by division at the same nursery in Zeeland, MI since 2015 with each of the resultant asexually propagated plants having retained all the same unique traits as the original plant in successive generations.

There are over 100,000 registered daylilies with The AmericanSociety, which is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for the genus. The most similar daylilies known to the inventor are: ‘Black Eyed Stella’ (not patented), ‘Black Eyed Susan’ (not patented), ‘Fancy Core’ (not patented), ‘Kokomo Sunset’ (not patented), ‘Orange Smoothie’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 28,643, and ‘Small World Rock Candy’ (not patented).

‘Black Eyed Stella’ has a shorter scape with slightly smaller flowers having golden tepals and a lighter orangish-red eye and gold throat, and the tepals are more pinched distally and more recurved. ‘Black Eyed Susan’ is a tetraploid, has taller scapes, more yellowish tepals with a more rusty reddish eye and golden yellow throat. ‘Fancy Core’ blooms a little later in the season on taller scapes with narrower tepals of golden orange and deep reddish eye. ‘Kokomo Sunset’ is a semi-evergreen tetraploid with shorter scapes of more golden-yellow with a lighter reddish eye and gold throat. ‘Orange Smoothie’ has taller scapes with more flowers per scape that have broader pastel-orange tepals with a deeper orange eye and large green throat with heavy undulation of the margin. ‘Small World Rock Candy’ has a taller scape with more flowers per scape and the tepals are a lighter yellow with a brighter red eye, and the tepal margin is more undulate with a picotee red edge around the proximal half.

‘Honey Barbeque’ differs from all other daylilies known to the applicant, by the combination of the following traits:

The following descriptions and color references are based on the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common dictionary terms are used. The new plant,‘Honey Barbeque’, has not been observed under all possible environments. The phenotype may vary slightly with different environmental conditions, such as temperature, light, fertility, moisture and maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The following observations and size descriptions are of a three-year-old plant in a sunny landscape at a display garden in Zeeland, Michigan with supplemental water and fertilizer.

Hardiness at least from USDA zone 3 through 9.

The new plant is useful for landscaping en masse, as a single specimen, or small groups.