I use an asterisk * next to every dip name on the plant label. I also made a straight dip only garden in my front yard last year. My other daylily gardens are mixed - only that front garden is dips only. That said, I believe I have about 1/3 dips vs 2/3 tets - which means the other gardens are predominantly tets. All my heirloom daylilies from our cottage are all dips also. But I love them all.~Jan

When I started messing with pollen in the early 90s I new nothing about where to locate the parentage and really never gave it a thought. I crossed what I JUST KNEW was going to produce pretty flowers, had a lot of barkers in those days and to be honest not much has changed today. I am more concerned about the flower being pretty and having some dormancy when I buy one to use. I pay more attention to my dip crosses than the tets. What few flowers I bought to hybridize with this year are dips from the north. I will do more dips this year than I normally do, I have better sucess with the dip UFs.
With the progress made in dips the last few years it would be almost impossible to tell them from the tets without checking the pollen.

I do care about parentage, but if the plant and flower have the attributes I am looking for, I will use it for hybridizing. Ballerina On Ice is a good example. In my opinion, there is no better plant for cold and early morning opening.

Since I don't hybridize it doesn't matter to me. But I am sure it would if I dabbed pollen!

It doesn't matter to me, but I think if you want to hybridize for certain traits in daylilies then it would be very important to know the parentage if possible.

Since I hybridize, when purchasing a new daylily I don't look at parentage so much as I look at what registered cultivars the plant has produced. I'd buy a plant I'm impressed with even though I don't have the parentage.

I too have noticed more and more that hybridizers aren't listing parentage in their new registrations. I always thought that information was required to register a daylily but now I see that it isn't.

Want to see parentage when buying seeds and seedlings, of course. Aside from that, I'm with Claudia and Margaret. Would track if growing my own, but not necessary to me otherwise.

I think the parentage is important but unless the plant is expensive I would buy them if it something I am interested in adding to my garden. When hybridizing I am not the greatest, organized person and do it more for fun. I have noticed the Rices do not list the parents any more. I grow several of their older plants and all do well for me.

I have also wondered about the seed/seedling sales if they are always correct. It a gamble, but that is half the fun.

I bet by now, the Rice hybrids are all from their own intros or seedlings!

I, myself, most often do not list parents. I am not a white tag hanger in my gardens. Hate them fluttering around my pretty flowers! I have tried the wire method but sometimes run out. But, I use very few pollen parents each year (often the latest and greatest that i have) so pretty much know what I have used as I see the seedling. But not always. I consider my intros more good garden plants as I am more into color, hardiness, height, shape etc. There are a few though that I hope people are working with. I hardly ever work with my own plants.

Interesting that the answer to the question seems to be related to hybridizing.

I thought more people considered parentage when buying daylilies.... Even when they don't hybridize.

Maybe Rice's are on to something. If collectors don't care, and hybridizers, in general, will buy the plant even if parentage is not listed...why bother with all the bookkeeping?

And, even if they keep track of parentage for themselves, by not listing them when registering, others cannot make the same cross instead of buying your intro. (and, I realize that you could make 10,000 seed and not come up with the same plant, exactly, that the hybridizer did.)