Pipit
Classification:
7 YYW-W[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Registered:
Yes, 1963
Seed Parent: 
Binkie 2 Y-W 
Guy L. Wilson and W. Wolfhagen, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Binkie
Pollen Parent: 
N. jonquilla Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. jonquilla
Seedling Number:
T6/6
Chromosomes:
21
Descendants:
None
Comments

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Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 2001 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.

Origin of Name

Part of Grant Mitsch’s “Bird Series”.  Named after the bird, Pipit, which can be found in his home state of Oregon.