Norwester
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Classification:
6 Y-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Year of first flowering:
1980
Hybridizer:

Mary Lou Gripshover

Columbus, Ohio, USA; Franklin, Tennessee; Milford, Ohio

Mary Lou Gripshover
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1995
Awards:

PC Award

This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2007.PC 2007; 
Special Classes:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

, The Daffodil Society Miniatures
Seed Parent: 
Small Talk 1 Y-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1965
Wee Bee x open pollinated
Small Talk
Pollen Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
Seedling Number:
73-6
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Norwester
Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. yellow; perianth segments ovate, with pale mucro, very strongly reflexed, with margins slightly incurved, overlapping at base only; corona cylindrical, a little constricted near mouth, smooth, with mouth slightly flared, rim dentate. Resembles a larger N. cyclamineus.

Origin of Name

Named for the large spring show in Columbus Ohio where Mary Lou Gripshover first got interested in exhibiting, the Nor-West Flower Show.

Synonyms:

'Northwester'

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Photo #58757 Mary Lou Gripshover, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #51021 Kirby Fong, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #50460 Tom Stettner, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #42450 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandNorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #16831 Jon Kawaguchi, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #9235 Kirby Fong, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #5799 Tom Stettner, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #2344 Kirby Fong, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #2343 Kirby Fong, USANorwesterNorwester, 6 Y-Y, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1995
Photo #2342 Kirby Fong, USA