Fl. 98 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, fairly prominently mucronate, golden yellow, spreading or slightly inflexed, somewhat creased and with margins incurlng, smooth, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments a little more narrowly ovate, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, darker in tone than the perianth, mouth flared and lightly frilled, with rim irregularly crenate.

According to The American Horticultural Society’s 1937 issue of the The American Daffodil Year Book Guy L. Wilson’s article “Some Modern Daffodils for Garden Decoration” states “…Dawson City, which is now plentiful, is a very great advance on ‘Emperor’; it is a fine flower with very perfect, broad, flat, overlapping perianth of imposing appearance.”