Scientific Name: Narcissus 'King Alfred'
Common Name: King Alfred daffodil
Family Name: Amaryllidaceae
Origin: Africa, Europe, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Perennial border, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Filiform, Entire
Flowers: Flowers solitary, Yellow, Apr-May
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown, May-Jun
Key ID Features:
Between 40-56cm tall; flowers all yellow, solitary, up to 10cm wide, six tepals with slightly twisted pointed tips surround a large funnel-shaped "trumpet" (the corona) with a wavy margin, Apr-May.