Narcissus scaberulus Henriques
Description
Bulb | small, globose, pale |
Leaf | glaucous, erect or prostrate andsinuous, 2-keeled, 2 mm wide, 7 cm long, often with scabrid edges |
Stem | round, striate, 7 cm |
Pedicel | to 25 mm |
Tube | greed, 2mm diameter, 14 mm long |
Flowers | 1-5, ascending, 18 mm diameter |
Petals | deep yellw, just imbricate, patent or slightly reflexed, apiculate, 3 mm wide, 7 mm high |
Corona | deep yellow, cup-shaped, often incurving at margin, minutely crenulate or entire, 5 mm high, 7 mm diameter |
Anthers | biseriate, 3 in corona and 4 in tube |
Style | just vertopping upper anthers |
Distribution - upper Mondego Valley (Portugal)
Ecology - granite gravel with plenty of moisture during the growing season, but extremely dry in summer
Phenology - mid-late March