Is this a daylily?

[Towcester]

Thinking if getting one and just trying to judge how they look in winter.

Is it daylily?

No, daylillies have super soft foliage that would be completely completely frosted to nothing by now. Not a fan myself as they are a bit scrappy most of the time.

That's likely a semi evergreen rush/grass. Carex?

Looks like this in summer.

No, by the look of it that is sedge grass (Carex Pendula) a native species.

Looks like pampas grass to me. Deffo not a Lily

My daylily looks a bit like your first pic. Shorter foliage though but already looking very perky and green. It's like a triffid, it's huge.

Definitely Carex pendula, Creeping Sedge. Not a grass, Pampas or otherwise, nor a rush, nor a daylily.

Sedges are in the Cyperaceae family, which is a different family from grass family or the rush family.

Ok. Thanks a lot. Will probably pass on the daylily then if it looks scrappy a lot of the time.

It doesn't look scrappy at all if you prune it back hard and prune the dead foliage. I mean, it's February so nothing looks great.

That’s one hundred percent sedge grass I have that and day lillies.

sedge grass is an utter thug and spreads every where

This is my day lillies last summer, I just prune them back after the season.

It looks like my patch of day lilies

Daylilies are so easy and reliable. I wouldn’t describe them as scrappy looking at all. Mine were still flowering well into November, and are already now sprouting new leaves.

My day lilies are currently stubs in the ground. Due to the cold temperatures their leaves all fell off this year.

We had that horrid sedge stuff, it has no pretty flowers at all just huge stems that look like grasses or rushes, and it spreads like a bastard. I dug it out and i kid you not 6 years later it is still sprouting up all over the garden no matter how much I try to eradicate it.
Day lillies though are lovely, we have some of those too. stick with those instead. They're not scrappy looking and they're no trouble.

Just in case you have cats and didn't know - the pollen from all lilies (including day lilies) is poisonous to cats.

I cut my day lillies down every year , completely to ground level, all leaves the lot, and the green leaves have just started coming back up now. They come back lovely and healthy and huge every year. As you can see from pic from last year . Had them about a decade.

they are nothing like sedge,which is an absolute thug.

Not “sedge grass”, sedges are a different family to grasses. Some of the smaller ones are lovely garden plants, with the overall effect of grasses but more tolerant of shade.

I’d be surprised if your daylilies had the remains of the thin stalked flowering spikes that you can see in OP’s picture

It seeds very freely. So if you have any in the neighbourhood you will keep getting seedlings. Trich is to recognise them when they’re still small and easy to pull out

I'll check tomorrow - but it's definitely where daylilies (and nothing else) were last year.

There’s no way, sedge has those beige rush like fronds in rhe ops pic, day lillies don’t. Even if you don’t cut day lillies down, the flower stalks are very different. Thicker stiffer. If you zoom in on mine you can see the stalks clearly that are left when the bloom is done,. If you zoom in on the ops image, you see the tall beige fronds, they are very different.

Not disputing that yours are daylilies, just disputing that they look just like OP’s plant