hemer-, hemero-

Flowering only during the day.

Able to speak only at night.

1. Any of several perennial Eurasian herbs of the genus Hemerocallis in the lily family, often having grasslike leaves and yellow, orange, or purplish lilylike flowers.
2. East Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: "day lilies"; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae.
3. From Greek, hemera, "day" plus kallos, "beauty".

The study of the ecology of cultivated areas and culture communities.

In biology, a form of life that lives in habitats influenced by the activities of humans: Hemerophiles are species that are favoured py people or have been cultivated.