Primrose-peerless - Narcissus tazetta x N. poeticus = N. x medioluteus
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Species Description
Widely planted throughout the UK and persists; sometimes becoming naturalised. Habitat includes: gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, woodland, scrub etc.
Stace 4:
Narcissus x medioluteus Mill. (N. biflorus Curtis; N. tazetta x N. poeticus) - Primrose-peerless.
Leaves flat, 7-14mm wide; flowers (1)2(-3); hypanthial tube 20-25mm; tepals 18-22mm, usually white; corona 3-5mm, usually yellow; (2n=17, 24). Neophyte-naturalised; infrequent relic in British Isles, mainly South; wild Iberian and garden origin. This belongs to division 8; often closely resembles N. tazetta, but some cultivars may have tepals and corona the same colour (white or yellow).
Key:
- Tepals patent to erecto-patent or very slightly reflexed
- All 6 stamens borne at same level close to base of corolla
- Corona <10mm, wider than long; stamens of 2 distinct lengths; hypanthial tube parallel-sided, sometimes abruptly expanded at apex
- Flowers (1)2-8(20); corona white or yellow all over
- Flowers (1)2(-3); hypanthial tube 20-25mm; most pollen sterile