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Daffodils with flat white petals and 1/2 inch yellow coronas
Daffodil with 6 flat, white petals and small yellow corona ringed in red

We live on the site of an early American farmstead in the central Midwest. The first settler to the area was in 1802, and the first lots were sold in 1854. I found a patch of naturalized daffodils in the large woodland that has been undisturbed since the farmstead began and moved some of them to my garden. (We own the woodland, and therefore own the daffodils).

They are very different from modern hybridized daffodils, with five flat petals and tiny central corona only about half an inch in diameter. There is a drawing of this daffodil, narcissus poeticus, in the Gottorfer Codex which resides in the National Gallery of Denmark. The Codex is a set of botanical drawings by Hans Holtzbecker. The Codex was commissioned by Frederick III, a Danish duke, in 1649 to catalog the plants that grew in his gardens at Gottorf Castle. The drawings are in the public domain and can be found in many locations, such as this link:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gottorfer_Codex_by_Hans_Simon_Holtzbecker#/media/File:Holtzbecker,_Hans_Simon_-_Gottorfer_Codex_I_-_KKSgb2947_13_-_Narcissus_pseudonarcissus;_Narcissus_poeticus;_Narcissus_%C3%97incomparabilis.jpg

I assume that our daffodil bulbs traveled to the Midwest from the East sometime in the early 1800s and have changed little since then.