Narcissus jonquillaL.

jonquil

WFO wfo-0000696545 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. a Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-03-21 / obs. 73244413
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. b Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186342039
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115211227
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32302939
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. e Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31163972
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. f Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186342140
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. g Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115211233
Narcissus jonquilla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. h Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32302925

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Narcissus jonquilla is native: Portugal, Spain PortugalSpain
Native distribution of Narcissus jonquilla, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Portugal POR EUROPE
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.

Also published as 29 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.

  • Hermione jonquilla (L.) Haw.
  • Hermione juncifolia Salisb.
  • Hermione similis Salisb.
  • Jonquilla juncifolia Fourr.
  • Jonquilla major Haw.
  • Jonquilla media Haw.
  • Jonquilla minor Haw.
  • Jonquilla parvicorona Haw.
  • Narcissus algarbiensis Fern.Casas
  • Narcissus cerrolazae Ureña
  • Narcissus jonquilla var. minor (Haw.) Baker
  • Narcissus jonquilla var. stellaris Baker
  • Narcissus jonquilloides Willk.
  • Narcissus jonquilloides var. webbii (Parl.) Nyman
  • Narcissus juncifolius Salisb.
  • Narcissus medius (Haw.) M.Roem.
  • Narcissus mion Schult.f.
  • Narcissus parvicorona M.Roem.
  • Narcissus pseudojonquilla Desf.
  • Narcissus similis Steud.
  • Narcissus webbii Parl.
  • Philogyne minor Haw.
  • Queltia apodantha Kunth
  • Queltia jonquilla (L.) Herb.

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.