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Wild Daffodil
Wild Daffodil
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate woodland
Range
Western Europe
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Bulbs
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A spring-blooming bulb whose nodding yellow flowers feature a long trumpet-shaped corona ringed by paler tepals. Every part of the plant contains lycorine, an alkaloid toxic enough that grazing animals reliably leave it alone.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Narcissus
Species
Narcissus pseudonarcissus