MASSASOIT (White, 1954) - Single - Dark Red - Early - Hybrid. About 30" high. This brilliant, dark red single has cupped guards, red filaments; yellow anthers, striped red; carpels hairy, green, with pink stigmas. It has thin but adequate stems. Its foliage resembles its officinalis parent, and is especially beautiful in Spring. It is a vigorous grower of good habit. RICHARD CARVEL x Officinalis anemoneflora aurea ligulata. Bulletin 131.
M.S. Uspenskaja 2003, p. 82:
