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On Jan 8, 2017, at 5:08 PM, Gary Woods wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:03:27 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> Years later, I read that daffodils must have well drained soil.
> 
> There is a wild narcissus that loves wet spot; could that be the one?  When
> I was a teen, a friend's house had a hill behind it sloping down to a
> marshy spot that hosted masses of them.
> 

I've no idea. It's a yellow old fashioned type daffodil. I was told that they 
had once been grown in beds near the house by previous owners, but somebody 
didn't like or didn't want to bother with them and threw them out in the 
fields, and they survived and grew out there.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale