Background history:
'Gentle Shepherd' is a semi-evergreen diploid introduced in 1980 by Yancey. No additional info is available about this hybridizer.
Gentle Shepherd is an early to mid-season bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: JC: 1981, Honorable Mention: 1984, and Award of Merit: 1987. It is both pod and pollen fertile with currently 100 registered children:
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This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Gentle Shepherd') .
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Gentle Shepherd')