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Division: Division 11a - Split-Cupped Collar
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): Yellow
Description: Nice fragrance Flower is a double triangle in form.
Bloom season: ML - Mid to Late Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Hybridizer: Brent C. Heath
Year of registration: 2003
Country of Origin: United States
Seed parent: Palmares
Pollen parent: Narcissus jonquilla
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)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 10"-14"
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Yellow
Bloom Size: 3"-4"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
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
Parentage: Palmares x Narcissus jonquilla

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Common names
  • Split-Cupped Collar Daffodil
  • Apodanthus Daffodil
  • Daffodil

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Location: Zone 6
Date: April 12
Relatively shorter plant but strong stem. Great for boarder and r
Location: Iowa
Date: 2024-03-31
Location: Iowa
Location: Iowa
Location: Iowa
Location: Iowa
Location: my garden in Frederick MD
Date: 2014-05-05
new bloom, bright yellow cup, sweetly fragrant!
Location: my garden in Frederick MD
Date: 2014-05-08
as the bloom ages, the yellow fades nearly to ivory
Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Sep 2, 2015 1:41 AM concerning plant:
    Brent and Becky's description - 'Smiling Twin - one of our very own seedlings (N. 'Palmares' x N. jonquilla); nice fragrance from its 'Dad'; form from its 'Mom'; 10"-14"; mid spring.'
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Jan 17, 2014 2:20 AM concerning plant:
    'Fls 2 per stem, forming a double triangle, 80 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, scarcely mucronate, greenish white 155A, tinged with yellowish white 158B, slightly inflexed, overlapping half; the inner segments more strongly inflexed, with margins wavy and incurling; corona split to base, the six segments half the length of the perianth segments and closely overlying them, light yellow 10B, deeply bi-lobed, loosely frilled. Late. Standard.'
    ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk
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