Narcissus tazettaL.

cream narcissus

WFO wfo-0000700066 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Narcissus tazetta, photographed by David Delon
fig. a David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-09 / obs. 187111828
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Eva Grabsch
fig. b Eva Grabsch, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188084264
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. c Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181826664
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181592185
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. e Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 182978123
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174754321
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Hila Taylor
fig. g Hila Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167101867
Narcissus tazetta, photographed by Malena Lorente
fig. h Malena Lorente, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137025685

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Narcissus tazetta is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, China Southeast, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanChina SoutheastCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqJapanLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanPakistanAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSpain Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Narcissus tazetta, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Japan JAP
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 630 in flower of 651 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Narcissus tazetta 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. 630 of 651 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 247 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.

  • Calathinus multiflorus Raf.
  • Chione italica (Ker Gawl.) Salisb.
  • Hermione ambigena Salisb.
  • Hermione amoena Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione antipolensis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione aperticorona Haw.
  • Hermione aurantiicorona Haw.
  • Hermione aurea (Haw.) Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione biancae Tod.
  • Hermione breviflora Haw.
  • Hermione brevistyla Herb.
  • Hermione callichroa Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione calliopsis Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione cerina Haw.
  • Hermione cheiranthea Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione chlorotica Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione chrysantha (DC.) Haw.
  • Hermione citrina Haw.
  • Hermione contorta Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione corrugata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Hermione crenularis Salisb.
  • Hermione crenulata (Haw.) Haw.
  • Hermione crispicorona Haw.
  • Hermione cupularis Salisb.

and 223 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.