Well, the picture didn't post, so here it is in the comment section.....

Maryl, I’m also wondering about this. Around here there are “ditch lilies” blooming in early spring and then I see others blooming in different places later in the season. I’m betting Nancy and Bob will know and educate us.

Sherry

Bob says the picture does not look like Europa, the common ditch lily. There are other varieties of Fulva that bloom at different times. Europa blooms first. It might be Fulva 'Korean' or 'Hankow' or perhaps an early hybrid. It is not Kwanso, which is always double.

There are several early hybrids that look like the ditch lily but that bloom a bit later. I used to have one.

Debra

Here's Hankow. It's a much later bloomer

Nancy: It looks more like Korean in your picture then Hankow. The houses in the neighborhoods I'm seeing it in were probably built in the late 60's to 70's, although I see it occasionally in more recently landscaped areas. They do not repeat, but the scapes are always tall and, considering our winds, remarkably strong. I don't know if it's a species daylily or not. I would think the species daylilies would be more aggressive then this seems to be; but what the hey do I know about species daylilies? Nada.........Thank you for your input. .............Maryl

I did not think I would ever get rid of them, but then do then ro grow like topsy , especially if I don't want it. and I, too, love orange, Maryl.

ky

Not Kwanza for certain , not Kwanza Flora Pleno either . Here'is a good link to images of species daylilies . http://gryphongardens.ca/daylily-species.php This is a canadian hybridizer who uses species daylilies to create his hybrids . A really good section on the different species daylily images.

Maryl,

They look very much like the common daylily I grew up with in PA and there are huge numbers here in KY as well. It looks like the next to last one in the link Signet sent.

According to Petit & Peat's book The new Encyclopedia of Daylilies, There are a number of variants of H. Fulva. It is most likely one of these variants.

Here's a link to Olallie Gardens species pages.

https://www.daylilygarden.com/garden-plants/daylily-species.html

another link to pictures https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hemerocallis_fulva#/media/File:Hemerocallis_fulva_01EB_China_Sichuan_Pingwu_09_06_04.jpg

Signet and Brad. Thank you both for taking the time to post the links. I've gone back and forth between them and my picture and I think this probably is a Fulva of some type. Call me naive though, I would never have thought that builders would have yanked up a wild species like Fulva and planted it in the landscape. But then they also planted lots of Silver Maples back then and they are not good trees at all in the long run........Here's a closer shot of the blooms. I'm sure there may be regional variances in Fulva also:

Maryl