Eudora Welty
Classification:
7 W-OOW[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2011
Seed Parent: 
Fertile Crescent 7 YYW-YYW 
Richard and Elise Havens, United States
Year of first flowering: 1989
Hillstar x Quick Step
Fertile Crescent
Pollen Parent: 
open pollinated
Seedling Number:
NH05/1
Pedigree Chart:
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 3 per stem, 65mm wide; perianth segments 27mm long, broadly oblong in outline, rounded at apex, very slightly mucronate, ivory white, spreading, plane to a little twisted, with margins slightly incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping one-third; the inner segments narrower, ovate; corona 15mm long, cup-shaped, angled, pastel orange, with white at rim, becoming white late into maturity, mouth straight, broadly ribbed, wavy, with rim crenate. Sweetly scented.

Origin of Name

Named for a historic house and garden in Jackson, Mississippi.