Also known as 'Plenus'.
Rip Van Winkle is an heirloom dating back to about 1884. Considered a miniature.
It has whorls of narrow, pale greenish yellow petals, some with a slight twist. Blooms are 1 to 2" across.
This one naturalizes well.

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Old House Garden's comment -
'Rip is a definite cutie .Early and dwarf, its spiky little blooms look like tiny yellow suns, cactus dahlias, sea anemones, or even mop-headed elves depending on your imagination. It’s also cheap and wonderfully easy to force. 4 Y-Y, 6-8”, zones 4a-7b.'

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Rip van Winkle - (4 Y-Y) (pumilis plenus) division 4, double; variable, old fashioned yellow flower that resembles a dandelion; a 'ragamuffin', to quote our friend, Phyllis, that looks like it's having a 'bad hair day', but is endearing to all who see it; all yellow with green segments interspersed; Heirloom; 1884; 5"-8"; early-midseason; no longer on the Approved Miniature List, but would get lost amoung the other Division 4 doubles.
Compliments of Brent and Becky's Bulbs

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RHS - 'l. about 50 mm wide, pale greenish yellow; perianth and other petaloid segments in several whorls symmetrically superimposed, narrowly ovate and acute, or lanceolate and with prominently incurved mucro, sometimes twisted, with margins tinged green, separated; the outer whorl inflexed; the inner whorls successively more strongly inflexed; corona segments opposite the petaloid segments, a little shorter, clustered at centre, more loosely interspersed among the surrounding whorls, obscurely bi-lobed. Very early.
Parent notes-variant of {N. pumilus}?
‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk

Synonym -'Plenus'
Used as pollen parent once (Jack Ripper, 2005).
A very successful daffodil.

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