Daffodil
ഡാഫോഡിൽസ്
Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 27 cm
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Common daffodil, Wild daffodil
Formerly Ajax breviflos, Ajax cambricus, Ajax capax, Ajax cuneifolius, and 32 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- German
- Osterglocke, Gelbe Narzisse
- French
- jonquille
- Czech
- narcis žlutý
- Finnish
- keltanarsissi
- Dutch
- wilde narcis, Wilde narcis
- Slovenian
- rumeni narcis
- Chinese
- 喇叭水仙, 大花喇叭水仙, 黄水仙
- Simplified Chinese
- 黄水仙
- Malayalam
- ഡാഫോഡിൽസ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Narcissus pseudonarcissus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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