Reverse Information: DAY LILY (Hemerocallis fulva) - Uses: Salad, asparagus, cooked vegetable, fritters, seasoning. An excellent food source. Add the raw early shoots to salads or prepare like asparagus. Prepare the young flower buds like green beans or, when older, like fritters. Use the fresh flowers to make fritters, or the fresh, withered, or dried flowers to season stews. Add crisp snow-white tubers found early in the year to salads, or prepare like corn. Older, but still firm tubers can also be prepared like corn. Flowers: June-August. Habitat: Waste ground, escaped from gardens.