Fls 2-4 per stem, rounded, 37 mm wide; perianth segments very broad in outline, blunt or squarish at apex, somewhat spathulate, brilliant greenish yellow, slight white mucro, spreading or reflexed, sometimes concave, margins sometimes incurling at apex, overlapping half; inner segments not noticeably mucronate; cup is bowl-shaped, lightly ribbed, opening with green at base, becoming yellow, darker in tone than the perianth, mouth straight and slightly wavy, rim entire. Resembles a ‘Sundial’ of heavier substance.

Daffodil named for the fertility god of the Anasazi. It was believed that Kokopelli would descend in the night and, playing his flute and walk the corn fields causing the crops to germinate. Anasazi were the ancient (800-1200AD) cliff-dwellers in the Southwest part of the United States.