Swift Arrow
Classification:
6 Y-Y[ Cyclamineus ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1977
Registered:
Yes, 1991
Seed Parent: 
B45/12 ( P50/1 seedling x
Flaming Meteor 2 Y-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1962
Armada x Ceylon
Flaming Meteor
)
Pollen Parent: 
N. cyclamineus Division 13 Species
Section: Pseudonarcissus
N. cyclamineus
Seedling Number:
2N41/1
Fertility:
Believed to be Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Perianth segments ovate in outline, blunt or truncate at apex, clear deep yellow, with slight white mucro, strongly reflexed, overlapping half or more; inner segments with margins wavy or incurling; corona cylindrical, lightly angled, slightly deeper in tone than the perianth segments, sometimes with undertones of orange, mouth flared, rim notched. Resembles a slightly earlier-flowered ‘Warbler’ with more yellow than green at base of perianth and corona. Siblings are ‘Wings of Freedom’ and ‘Warbler’.

Origin of Name

Part of Mitsch’s “Swift and Arrow” Series.