Thank you! That is exactly what it is. I thought it was a shrub because it was about as tall as I am.. 5ft. Very beautiful. I was in awe over it. Thanks again!

deejaus, the minute I saw this image I thought that it was likely a gall. I even found a VERY near image in my "Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs" (by Johnson and Lyon). The culprit was the ubiquitous eriophyid mite, but the particular species was found on Black Walnuts. My web search has come up with nothing, darn it. Cherokee, if you are still around...how about posting more pictures?

Kwanso is an old double orange ditch lily. The deer seldom eat mine (while they eat everything else) and it blooms for quite a while after the typical orange single ditch daylily so I appreciate it for that but it is a beast and will crowd out most other plants. By the way both are pretty much sterile so they are not seeding. I find Kwanso is very aggressive and has spread into my beds. Mine started with less than a pinky tip of roots as an experiment. What I actually wanted was another orange double, Floro Pleno. Kwanso focuses on growing a nice plant before it blooms...it thus can "hide" for years. Its leaves are big and healthy. In poor conditions it just is a sea of green until it is happy. Its looks a bit beat and barely flowers then. I have found it spreading underground...its shoot's leaves actually green in the dirt without the sun. I suggest tracking your flowers as they bloom and dig out what you know you want and relocating it. If you only have that spot I suggest saving what you know you want and keeping them in definite clumps, aggressive pulling out anything that comes up in the middle between. If an orange pops up in a clump dig the clump and carefully tease out the orange plant while in bloom....it will only infiltrate worse later. I you are careful and water you will probably still get the rest of the plant to bloom. I think if you have it you may never get rid of it entirely. Finally, if you have a plant that is mostly smaller leaved but one piece of it is looks really healthy and grows better than the rest in the spring...it could be a seedling...but probably is Kwanso. Great plant but give it it's own piece of ground and never mix it in with other daylilies.

Beautiful Cori Ann! Does it smell as wonderful as the descriptions? I meant to post back that out of my original 6 plants that "Failed," 5 miraculously started to show green leaves. Apparently bunny munching didn't destroy the root system. I was glad I hadn't gotten around to removing them yet. So we put chicken fence around to protect from grazing and they are slowly growing. Nothing like yours for sure, but I was amazed that they tried to come back. No blooms.