Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Reilly-Hein
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1990
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 24 inches
Bloom size: 5.5 inches
Bloom time: Early midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom
Rebloom
Rust Resistance: Shows Resistance
Rust Resistance Decimal Score: 2.3
Fertility: Pod Fertile
Pollen Fertile
Bloom Traits: Eye or Band
Edged
Bloom Form: Single
Color description: golden yellow edged red with deep red eyezone and green throat
AHS Awards: Stout Silver Medal: 2005
Award of Merit: 2001
Honorable Mention: 1998

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Child plants: 229 child plants

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Photo by blue23rose
Photo by frankrichards16
Location: Wentworth, NS, Canada
Date: 2017-08-03
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-07-15
"Hemerocallis 'Fooled Me', 2017, [Daylily], hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 2

Photo courtesy of MaryAnn Pruden of Lily House
Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2011-06-24
Photo by kimkats
Location: West Jefferson, North Carolina
Date: 2022-07-04
Location: Chatham, VA
Date: July 10th, 2021 4:00 pm
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-07-09
It did fool me; I bought it thinking it was a rebloomer!

Photo Courtesy of A-1 Daylilies. Used with Permission.
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Location: Wentworth, NS, Canada
Date: 2016-07-17

Image courtesy of Charlotte's Daylily Diary. Used with permission
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Location: My Garden
Date: 2023-09-05
Location: 382 River Road, Pequea, PA 17565
Date: July 11, 2015
A bright light in my garden!
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-07-13
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Date: 2018-06-20
Gift from NA member - first blooms ever!
Location: Home
Date: 2016-07-06
Location: My garden
Date: July-19-2015
Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2003-06-28
Location: Shady Rest Gardens Cartersville, Ga.
Date: 2010-06-24
Photo by Christine27360
Location: Chatham, VA
Date: 07/02/22
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-07-22
Location: Van Buren, MO
Date: 2019-07-13
Backdrop provided by Inky ;)

Date: 2016-05-14
Location: Local garden Lexington, KY
Date: 2014-06-30

Date: 2011-07-04

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date: 2018-07-20
Location: West Jefferson, North Carolina
Date: 2021-06-30
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-06-12
Photo by DraDiana
Location: Panama Illinois
Date: 2020-07-15

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
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Location: Garden City, MI
Date: 2011-07-11
Image-KM Pruden, with permission
Location: Van Buren, MO
Date: 2016-06-25
If I were allowed only 1 Daylily, this is the one.

Date: 2006-07-16
Photo Courtesy of Nova Scotia Daylilies Used with Permission
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Location: WA
1st bloom
Location: Ramona, CA
Date: Spring 2019
Location: Enid, Oklahoma
Date: 2013-06-24
Photo by plantcollector

Photo Courtesy of Nottawasaga Daylilies. Used with Permission.
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Location: central MD; zone 6
Date: 2010-06-26
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-06-14
Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2015-06-13
FFOE For the first bloom to ever open on this plant it looks grea

Photo Courtesy of Garfield Gardens Used with Permission
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Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2016-06-01

Image courtesy of Charlotte's Daylily Diary. Used with permission
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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-07-12
"Hemerocallis 'Fooled Me', 2017, [Daylily], hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 2

Date: 2020-07-18
Photo by pinkiris
Location: SE Michigan
Date: 2015-07-25
Photo by kimkats
Photo by blue23rose
Location: Concord, NC zone 7
Date: 2016-05-31
Location: southern KY
Date: 2019-06-24
Location: Stockbridge, GA
Date: 2014-07-06
Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2018-05-13
Fooled Me first bloom on this plant this year
Photo by kimkats

Date: 2018-07-13
Location: North Carolina
Date: 2022-07-23
Fooled Me
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-18

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms

Photo Courtesy of Earlybird Daylilies. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Robertsdale, AL
Date: 5/13/22
Morning
Location: Robertsdale, AL
Date: 5/13/22
Morning

Date: 2016-05-12
Location: Private Garden, MI
Date: 2005-08-06
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: 2018-07-16
Eye-catching and reliable. Love Fooled Me!
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-07-08
"Hemerocallis 'Fooled Me', 2017, [Daylily], hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 2
Location: Chatham, VA
Date: 07/02/2023
Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada
Date: 2015-07-18

Date: 2007-06-23
Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
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Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01
Location: Enid, Oklahoma
Date: 2013-06-25

Photo Courtesy of Walnut Hill Gardens Used With Permission. Unaut
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Location: Bethpage, TN
Location: West Jefferson, North Carolina
Date: 2018-07-01
Location: West Jefferson, North Carolina
Date: 2021-07-05

Image Courtesy of Monches Farm Used with Permission
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Posted with permission and photographed by Kathy Rinke http://www
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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany
Date: 2018-06-17

Posted with permission and photographed by Jim Healey http://www.
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Location: BX Creek Daylilies, Vernon, BC.
Photo by Gail Morgan of BX Creek Daylilies. Used with permission.
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Date: July 2019
Fooled Me
Location: SE Michigan Daylily Society Show
Date: 2009-07-18

Photo Courtesy of Mr. Fancy Plants Daylily Nursery Used with Perm
  • Uploaded by vic

Date: 2004-08-26
Courtesy of Peace on Earth Gardens Used with permission
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Photo Courtesy of E and B Farm Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Private Garden, MI
Date: 2005-08-06

Photo Courtesy of Cheryl's Daylilies. Used with Permission
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Location: Robertsdale, AL
Date: 5/18/21
Early morning no filter
Location: Milton, NY
Date: 2022-07-22
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: July 15, 2012
photo by James Steakley
Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-08-02
Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-08-16
Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-07-31
Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-07-29
Location: Dreamy Daylilies - Chatham-Kent, Ontario   5b
Date: 2013-07-06

Photo Courtesy of Lilywood Farms. Used with Permission.
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Comments:
  • Posted by csandt (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jul 13, 2017 8:40 AM concerning plant:
    Fooled me is a stunning, eye-catching bright light in my zone 6b garden, even without supplemental water. It makes a nice clump, and the flowers always bloom way above the foliage. I could not be happier with its performance.
  • Posted by scflowers (Warrenville, SC - Zone 8a) on Sep 7, 2015 12:54 PM concerning plant:
    Not sure what this cultivar does in other regions, but here in SC, it is sending up rebloom scapes.

    This is the second year that Fooled Me has been in my garden.
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