Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 3 - Small-Cupped
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): Yellow
Description: see comments below
Bloom season: ML - Mid to Late Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Special Classes: ADS Historics
Hybridizer: Barr & Sons
Year of registration: Yes. Year of 1st flowering pre 1908.
Country of Origin: England
Awards: Award of Merit
Links: DaffSeek - Daffodil Database
RHS - Daffodil Register

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 12-26 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Yellow
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Other: Forcible
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Groundcover
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Rabbit Resistant
Squirrels
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant

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Common names
  • Small Cupped Daffodil
  • Heirloom Daffodil
  • Daffodil

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Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Date: 2018-04-11
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: April 2022
Cloudy day.
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Date: 2018-04-07
Location: j c raulston arboretum, ncsu,  raleigh, north carolina
Date: 2024-03-12
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Date: 2020-04-03
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-05-02
First year plant.

Date: c. 1930
photo from the 1930 catalog, M. Van Waveren & Sons, New York City
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-05-02
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-05-02
Bloom reverse
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2015-04-22

Date: c. 1929
illustration by Mary E. Eaton from 'Addisonia', 1929
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-05-02
Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Nov 5, 2014 1:20 PM concerning plant:
    By Old House Gardens -'With her elegant, snow-white petals and fluted lemon cup, this ‘Queen’ is as cool as a frosty glass of lemonade. “Certainly one of the most beautiful of all daffodils,” the great Pennsylvania plantsman John Wister wrote in 1930, and she’s still winning blue ribbons in daffodil shows all across the country today! 3 W-Y, 16-18”, zones 4a-7b.'
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Oct 7, 2013 10:25 AM concerning plant:
    RHS describes thusly -'Fl. star-shaped, about 80 mm wide, facing slightly downwards; perianth segments narrowly elliptic, mucronate, milk white, slightly stained yellow at base, a little reflexed, with margins wavy or recurved, slightly ribbed, of thin substance, separated; corona cup-shaped, more or less straight-sided, ribbed, becoming pale primrose yellow, with mouth straight, rim lightly dentate. Mid-season. 2n=21'. ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk

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