The AHS has only asked for bud counts in recent years. Buds means average number of buds per scape. Branches are the parts sticking out that have buds on them.

AHS only lists what info the hybridizer gives them. Some don't seem interested in giving much info.

So, Bard, are there no minimum requirements for registering a plant?

Just a comment about bud counts--as stated before, the hybridizer lists them. When I was just getting started with daylilies in a serious way, I was suckered any number of times by listed bud counts. Older and wiser now, I know that one daylily growing here will never have the listed 55 buds, maybe 15 on a good day. I'm sure there are others, but occasionally one will make a pretty good bud count, maybe in the 30s, not many of these either, at least not for me. So I take registered bud counts with a grain of salt, and just hope that the scape can produce somewhere around 15 flowers or so; naturally more than that is a big plus.

Dave, as far as I know you can register anything, and that's why there are so many pathetic daylilies out there. To me a forum like this is a real blessing. Since we all comment on how well a flower does or doesn't do, we can pick and choose better. Of course, some flowers do better in different zones, but again I often see those kind of comments here.