Sassafras Hill
Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2021
Hybridizer:

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins
, New Jersey, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2023
Seed Parent: 
Top of the Hill 3 W-GWY 
Ballydorn Bulb Farm, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1981
Crebilly x Ballymartin
Top of the Hill
Pollen Parent: 
Spindletop 3 W-Y 
William G. Pannill, United States
Year Registered: 1972
Blarney x Aircastle
Spindletop
Seedling Number:
12-65
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 85mm wide; perianth segments 30mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, truncate, mucronate, spreading, plane or with margins somewhat incurved, with midrib showing, of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, scarcely mucronate; corona 6mm long, cup-shaped, angled, mouth expanded and lightly frilled, with rim crenate. Late

Origin of Name

A location in Registrant’s native Drew County, Arkansas, where all the local kings and queens set up their final markers and resting places.