Verdant Meadow
Classification:
3 W-GWW[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1973
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1990
Registrant:

Richard and Elise Havens

Richard Havens b 1940, d 2014

Elise Havens, daughter of Grant E. Mitsch

Richard and Elise Havens of Hubbard, Oregon, USA, continued her father's business "Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils" from 1989 though 2015.

Richard and Elise Havens
, Oregon, USA
Special Class:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

Seed Parent: 
Dallas 3 W-GWW 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1942
Cushendall x Silver Salver
Dallas
Pollen Parent: 
Delightful 3 W-GYY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1969
Cushendall x open pollinated
Delightful
Seedling Number:
II95/1
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
1 time as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 70 mm wide, pure white; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, plane, smooth, overlapping half or more; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins recurved at base and wavy or incurled near apex; corona bowl-shaped, small, closely ribbed, with bright green at base, mouth straight, split in places and overlapping, frilled.

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Verdant meadowVerdant Meadow, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1990
Photo #6537 Mary Durtschi, USAVerdant meadowVerdant Meadow, 3 W-GWW, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1990
Photo #3825 Elise Havens, USA