Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Gossard
Year of Registration or Introduction: 2006
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 32 inches
Bloom size: 7.5 inches
Bloom time: Midseason
Plant Traits: Rebloom
Diurnal
Early Morning Opener (EMO)
Bud Count: 21-25
Branching: 5-way
Bloom Traits: Bicolor or Reverse Bicolor
Dotted, Stippled, Streaked or Variegated
Watermark
Bloom Form: Unusual Form
Unusual Form - Crispate
Color description: light purple with darker spots and darker bicolored watermark and purple ey
AHS Awards: Award of Merit: 2014
Honorable Mention: 2010

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
Fragrant
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Raptor x Tet. Starman's Quest
Child plants: 20 child plants

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Date: 2019-07-28
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Date: July 13, 2023
Daylily ‘Purple Cheetah'

Date: 2012-07-15
Location: My garden, Baltimore MD
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Date: 2019
Location: Stoneham MA
Date: July 13, 2022
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Date: 2018-04-14
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Date: 2015-08-02
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
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Location: Wilmington, DE
Date: 2011-07-01
Purple Cheetah
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-06-21
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2022-06-26
Location: My garden
Date: 2021-07-21
Location: Garden tour Topeka KS
Date: 2018-07-01
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Date: 2023-06-17
Location: springfield MO
Date: 2015-06-28
Location: South central Ky
Date: July
Location: Stoneham MA
Date: 2023-07-27
Purple Cheetah

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Location: Carleton Place, Ontario Canada
Date: 2017-07-19
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Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-06-20
The cheetah found its spots!
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Location: My garden
Date: 2023-07-23
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2021-07-06
Location: Stoneham MA
Date: July 13, 2021

Date: 2019
Location: Little garden of Big Dreams, Dayton KY

Date: 2013-07-01
Photo by annred97
Location: my garden-zone 6b
Date: 2023-07-01

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Location: Ohio
Date: 2012-07-15
AHS garden tour 2012 - Gossard's  Heavenly gardens
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2021-07-01
Location: the garden of Mike Anders, Findlay, Ohio
Date: 2019-07-12
Location: MY GARDEN
Date: 5-29-22
Location:  my city garden
Date: 2016-7-6
The flower changes color during the day. Left: morning, right: af
Location: Jackie and Dan Canner Garden, Georgetown, KY
Date: 2015-07-08
Location: Northern Illinois (Zone 5a)
Date: 2017-07-01
Location: My Garden
Date: 2014-06-28

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Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2020-06-30
Location: Jackie and Dan Canner Garden, Georgetown, KY
Date: July 2015

Date: 2012-05-28
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Photo courtesy of Paul J. Owen of Slightly Different Nursery
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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany
Date: 2021-07-06

Photo courtesy of Karen Newman, Delano Daylilies
Location: Jackie and Dan Canner Garden, Georgetown, KY
Date: 2015-07-11

Date: 2019
First year in the garden

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Date: 2007-07-11
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Photo by Pat236

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Date: 2006-10-29
Photo courtesy of James Gossard of Heavenly Gardens
Plant Events from our members
Lilydaydreamer On July 14, 2018 Maintenance performed
Divided
Pat236 On June 15, 2018 Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc)
I no longer have this plant.
Pat236 On June 8, 2016 Bloomed
First bloom ever...no spots yet!
Pat236 On May 23, 2016 Plant emerged
First scapes appeared on plant received from Park Lane last spring.
carpathiangirl On April 17, 2021 Obtained plant
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