Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 2 - Large-Cupped
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): White
Description: see comments below
Bloom season: M - Mid Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Hybridizer: Guy L. Wilson
Year of registration: Registered/flowering pre 1930
Country of Origin: Northern Ireland
Origin of name: 'In his own words, the reason Guy Wilson named this daffodil: “I have named this supremely beautiful flower after a hill a few miles distant from here on whose slopes St. Patrick herded sheep in his boyhood.” DaffSeek 1-16-14
Seed parent: Findhorn
Pollen parent: 'Beersheba'
Awards: Award of Merit
First Class Certificate
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)
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
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
Awards and Recognitions: Other: FCC(e) 1939; AM Haarlem 1938; AM(e) 1935
Parentage: Findhorn x Beersheba
Child plants: 12 child plants

Common names
  • Large Cupped Daffodil
  • Daffodil

Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Jan 16, 2014 3:04 PM concerning plant:
    'Fl. forming a double triangle; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, opening greenish white, becoming pure white, spreading, plane, with margins minutely incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, with margins more or less strongly wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, ivory white, with mouth expanded, rim rolled and broadly crenate.

    Was classified as a Division 1 daffodil until 1938.'
    DaffSeek 1-16-14.

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