Hoop Petticoat Daffodil

Did you know

• The flower's enormous funnel-shaped corona relative to its tiny petals looks like a full hoop skirt or petticoat, inspiring one of botany's most delightful common names.
• It is one of the smallest daffodil species, yet naturalizes so readily that it carpets entire hillside meadows in Portugal and Spain with yellow in early spring.
• At RHS Wisley in England, a famous meadow has been established where hoop petticoat daffodils naturalize in grass and set seed freely — unusual among cultivated narcissus.
• The species bulbocodium means 'cotton bulb' in Greek, likely referring to the papery tunics that surround the bulb.
• It belongs to a section of the genus Narcissus that is considered among the most ancient and primitive, providing insights into the evolutionary origin of the daffodil flower form.

Color meanings

Uses

• ornamental
• naturalizing bulb
• rock garden