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|accepted_name=Narcissus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 289. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 141. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Narcisse
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Narcissus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Narcissus]]</div></div>
|etymology=from Greek Narkissos, mythological youth who fell in love with his own reflection and changed into a flower
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 53, 54
|treatment_page=page 294
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, scapose, from ovoid, tunicate bulbs. <b>Leaves</b> (1–)several; blade linear to ligulate, flat to semiterete, fleshy. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate in clusters of 2–20, or solitary, spathaceous; spathe 1-valved, enclosing buds, membranous or papery. <b>Flowers</b> pedicellate or sessile, erect or declinate, often fragrant; tepals 6, connate proximally, distinct and reflexed to ascending distally, yellow and/or white; perianth tube surmounted by a cupular to trumpetlike corona with margins often frilled; stamens 6, epitepalous, often of 2 lengths; filaments separate from corona; anthers basifixed; ovary inferior, 3-locular; style often exserted; stigma minutely 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, 3-locular, papery to leathery, dehiscence loculidical. <b>Seeds</b> numerous, subglobose, often with elaiosomes; testa black. <b>x</b> = 7, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;n Africa;Asia;introduced and naturalized elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 26 (5 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Narcissus</i> species and especially a vast array of their natural hybrids and garden cultivars are among the most popular spring flowers (A. Huxley et al. 1992). Many species are extremely variable due to horticultural selection and naturalization. Besides the following species, many of the cultivars also may persist around old gardens, although they never fully naturalize.</p><!--
--><p>All parts of the plant are poisonous, especially the bulb, due to phenanthridine alkaloids such as narcissine and lycorine (G. E. Burrows and R. J. Tyrl 2001).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=blanchard1990a
|text=Blanchard, J. W. 1990. Narcissus—A Guide to Wild Daffodils. Woking.  Jefferson-
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=brown1991a
|text=Brown, M. J. 1991. Narcissus. Portland.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=meyer1966a
|text=Meyer, F. G. 1966. Narcissus species and wild hybrids. Amer. Hort. Mag. 45: 47–76.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences 1-flowered.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences umbellate, (1–)2–20-flowered.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corona tubular, ± equal in length to free portions of tepals; tepals yellow; stamens uniseriate.
|[[Narcissus pseudonarcissus|Narcissus pseudonarcissus]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corona cup-shaped, much shorter than free portions of tepals; tepals white; stamens biseriate.
|[[Narcissus poeticus|Narcissus poeticus]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades nearly terete, 2–4 mm wide; flowers uniformly golden yellow.
|[[Narcissus jonquilla|Narcissus jonquilla]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades flat, 6–15(–20) mm wide; flowers white, or yellow and white.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Tepals and corona white.
|[[Narcissus papyraceus|Narcissus papyraceus]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Tepals white to cream, corona yellow.
|[[Narcissus tazetta|Narcissus tazetta]]
|}
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name=Narcissus
|author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=Europe;n Africa;Asia;introduced and naturalized elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=blanchard1990a;brown1991a;meyer1966a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Narcissus
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