Fls 2-3 per stem, 70 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, pale sulfur yellow, with slight white mucro, paling almost to pure white at base, spreading, with margins incurling, overlapping one-third; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins wavy or more strongly incurved; corona short funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, opening pale sulfur yellow, becoming near to pure white, mouth straight, loosely frilled.
Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 2001 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.
Part of Grant Mitsch’s “Bird Series”. Named after the bird, Pipit, which can be found in his home state of Oregon.
Pipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #60286 Vee Kozma, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #54088 Tom Stettner, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #53238 John F. McLennan, New ZealandPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #42548 Tom Stettner, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #40761 Ralph Sowell, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #37051 Marguerite Donkin, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #35914 Fentongollan Farms, EnglandPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #35017 Kirby Fong, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #32190 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #16949 Christopher Harley, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #11130 Kirby Fong, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #8868 Theodore E. Snazelle, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #7982 Ben Blake, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #7981 Ben Blake, USAPipit, 7 YYW-W, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1963
Photo #5812 Tom Stettner, USA