Fl. forming a double triangle; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, opening greenish white, becoming pure white, spreading, plane, with margins minutely incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, with margins more or less strongly wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, ivory white, with mouth expanded, rim rolled and broadly crenate.
Was classified as a Division 1 daffodil until 1938.
In his own words, the reason Guy Wilson named this daffodil: “I have named this supremely beautiful flower after a hill a few miles distant from here on whose slopes St. Patrick herded sheep in his boyhood.”
Slemish, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1930
Photo #52526 Mary Lou Gripshover, USASlemish, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1930
Photo #46862 Heath Family Archives, USASlemish, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1930
Photo #31233 RHS Yearbook, EnglandSlemish, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1930
Photo #31212 RHS Yearbook, EnglandSlemish, 2 W-W, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1930
Photo #28545 Guy L. Wilson Catalog, Northern Ireland