This was the only flower of its type, hanging out amid a bunch of other blooms, eye catching for its color and uniqueness.

Per Wikipedia:

Daylilies have been found growing wild for millennia throughout China, Mongolia, northern India, Korea, and Japan.^[10] There are thousand-year-old Chinese paintings showing orange daylilies that are remarkably similar to the flowers that grace modern gardens.

Daylilies may have been first brought to Europe by traders along the silk routes from Asia.^[11] However it was not until 1753 that daylilies were given their botanic name of Hemerocallis by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.

Daylilies were first brought to North America by early European immigrants, who packed the roots along with other treasured possessions for the journey to the New World. By the early 1800s, the plant had become naturalized, and a bright orange clump of flowers was a common sight in many homestead gardens.

The orange or tawny daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), common along roadsides in much of North America, is native to Asia. Along with the lemon lily (Hemerocallis flava), it is the foundational species for most modern cultivars.

I think I saw a few of these growing along a street in Halifax, will be interesting to see if those are identified as the same flower when I get to those pictures.