Flycatcher
Classification:
7 Y-Y[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 1970
Seed Parent: 
(
Playboy 2 Y-O 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1944
Carbineer x Rosslare
Playboy
x
Firecracker 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1953
Narvik x Ceylon
Firecracker
)
Pollen Parent: 
N. assoanus Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. assoanus
Seedling Number:
E38/1
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls usually 2 per stem, rounded; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt or truncate, clear yellow, spreading or a little reflexed, plane, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly spreading, sometimes creased; corona short funnel-shaped, smooth, somewhat deeper in tone than the perianth, mouth straight, wavy, rim minutely crenate. Pollen Parent N. assoanus formerly called juncifolius;

Origin of Name

Part of Grant Mitsch’s “Bird Series”. Named after the bird, Flycatcher, native in his home state of Oregon.