Narcissus bulbocodium (petticoat daffodil)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by Carminda Santos — fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-25 / obs. 190865076

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by Rafael Medina — fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187651028

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by euqirneto — fig. c euqirneto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186443613

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by Jose Castro — fig. d Jose Castro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186190328

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183738188

Narcissus bulbocodium, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. h Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183235216

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Narcissus bulbocodium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
France	FRA	EUROPE
Portugal	POR
Spain	SPA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 758 in flower of 761 examined

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Proportion of examined Narcissus bulbocodium in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	32	32	100%	89% to 100%
Feb	149	150	99%	96% to 100%
Mar	349	350	100%	98% to 100%
Apr	171	172	99%	97% to 100%
May	44	44	100%	92% to 100%
Jun	1	1	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	2	2	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	1	1	too few examined
Dec	8	8	100%	68% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Narcissus bulbocodium observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 758 of 761 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 44 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Corbularia aurea Haw.
Corbularia bulbocodium (L.) Haw.
Corbularia bulbocodium subsp. aurea (Delile) Nyman
Corbularia bulbocodium subsp. gallica (Rouy) Rouy
Corbularia cantabrica Haw.
Corbularia conspicua Haw.
Corbularia filifolia M.Roem.
Corbularia graellsii (Webb ex Graells) Webb ex Willk. & Lange
Corbularia herbertii Rouy
Corbularia lobulata (Haw.) Haw.
Corbularia nivalis (Graells) Nyman
Corbularia schultesii M.Roem.
Corbularia serotina Haw.
Corbularia tenuifolia Salisb.
Corbularia turgida Salisb.
Narcissus aureus DC.
Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. carpetanus Barra & G.López
Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. ectandrus (Barra & G.López) Barra, Díez Domínguez & Ureña
Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. graellsii (Webb ex Graells) K.Richt.
Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. nivalis (Graells) K.Richt.
Narcissus bulbocodium var. biflorus F.M.Vázquez
Narcissus bulbocodium var. conspicuus (Haw.) Baker
Narcissus bulbocodium var. ectandrus Barra & G.López
Narcissus bulbocodium var. graellsii (Webb ex Graells) Baker

and 20 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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