Daffodils, Narcissus and Jonquils
Daffodil Day, March, 29 10 to 3 Thomas Foreman Historic Home 1419 W Okmulgee Sponsored by Muskogee Garden Club and Three Rivers Museum Sue Tolbert 918-686-6624 3riversmuseum@sbcglobal.net Muskogee Garden Club Oyana Wilson 918-683-5380 email oyanaw@gmail.com There are 27,000 unique daffodil cultivars with flower colors from white to yellow and orange. Daffodils can be cultivated and cross-bred hundreds of ways to form delicate hybrids. Also, they can live on abandoned homesteads for a hundred years without any human intervention. The names Jonquil, Narcissus and Daffodil are used for all the flowers in the Narcissus family since Narcissus is the name of the plant genus of which they are all members. Daffodil is used as a common name for all of them. The exception is Narcissus jonquilla, what we call Jonquils, are unique from the others because they have narrow leaves, and each stem has 3 fragrant flowers with...