I was just typing the same thing, Mary.
If you cross daylilies in an area where rust resistance and "not dormant" are your two most important characteristics, then parentage is probably important to you when it's available.
(cultivar A x cultivar B) x (cultivar C x cultivar D) is fine and helpful when it's that simple.
But often cultivar B and cultivar D are scruffy looking seedlings used by a hybridizer because they know they clarify colors or make white whiter or are great at passing on tall, beefy scapes. ...but would never be worthy of registration on their own.
So now its:
(cultivar A x (cultivar E x cultivar F)) x (cultivar C x (cultivar G x cultivar H))
and, to make it just a little more painful but not as bad as it could be, if cultivar F is also a seedling, I've seen hybridizers that will list the parentage as:
[(cultivar A x (cultivar E x (cultivar I x cultivar J))] x (cultivar C x (cultivar G x cultivar H))
No thank you. No longer helpful information. Just give me a good pic of the scapes and bloom instead, and tell me if it's fertile.
Also, I think if Clown Pant's parents were Leslie Renee x Wispy Rays, it would still be pretty popular. But if they were sdlg x sdlg we'd think less of it? CPs parents are Dr Van's Lily Merlot and Eight Mile High. No one has bought EMH on the LA since 2016, and DVLM seeds sold for only $15 and $20 instead of the $100 CP's seeds can fetch. We saaaay we care about the parentage, but our actions don't seem to back that up.
