Flower fragrant, star-like, to 5½ inches (14 cm) across. Petals elliptical, mucronate, ruffled, lavender-pink with darker midrib. Throat-circle and filaments white. Stigma light green. Flowers fragrant. Stems freely pupping, semicolumnar, to 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter; central spines to 1 inch (26 mm) long. Named after Lochinvar, the noble knight in Sir Walter Scott’s poem Marmion, who was “so faithful in love, and so dauntless in war”. ISI 97-17; HBG 80603, Schick 1235-46.
