Narcissus and Daffodil

36 B. Mathew
N. cyclamineus DC. Flowers yellow, with sharply reflexed petals. Leaves bright
green, not at all glaucous. North-west Portugal, north-west Spain.
N. jacetanus Casas.
var. jacetanus. Very similar to N. asturiensis but with a very incised corona.
Northern Spain, on limestone formations.
var. vasconicus (Casas) Casas. A very small-flowered variant, corona only
1.5 cm long. Northern Spain, on acid formations.
N. lagoi Merino. Up to 50 cm tall but with small flowers, similar to those of N. asturiensis.
North-west Spain.
N. minor L. Similar to N. asturiensis but a larger plant to 15 cm with broader leaves.
Flowers yellow, the corona not constricted in the middle. Long cultivated, and of
unknown origin, possibly the result of hybridisation between N. asturiensis and
N. pseudonarcissus.
N. nanus Spach. Early-flowering, bicoloured with pale yellow petals and a deeper
yellow, straight-sided corona. A small trumpet daffodil of unknown origin.
N. provincialis Pugsley. Similar to N. minor, the flowers slightly larger to 4 cm long.
Southern France.
N. parviflorus Jordan. Flowers ± pendent, with pale cream-yellow perianth segments
and deep yellow corona. South-western France.
N. pumilus Salisbury. Similar to N. nanus but flowers wholly bright yellow, the
corona very expanded and frilled at the margin. Origin unknown.
N. portensis Pugsley. Up to 20 cm in height with uniform bright yellow flowers;
perianth segments noticeably shorter than the funnel-shaped trumpet. Northern
Portugal, central and north-western Spain.
Group B. Plants often 15–60 cm or more and/or with large flowers, usually
5–12 cm diameter
N. abscissus (Haworth) Schultes and Schultes fil. Flowers bicoloured with cream
perianth segments and yellow, parallel-sided corona not expanded at mouth.
North-eastern Spain, south-western France.
N. albescens Pugsley. Flowers creamy-white with a pale creamy-yellow corona,
held horizontally; corona much-expanded at the mouth. Origin unknown.
N. alpestris Pugsley. Flowers wholly white, pendent; perianth segments held
alongside corona. North-eastern Spain.
N. bicolor L. Similar to N. abscissus but with pale yellow perianth segments and
deeper yellow corona. Origin unknown.
N. bujei (Casas) Casas. Similar to N. hispanicus (below) but leaves less noticeably
blue-green. Flowers wholly yellow, to 6.5 cm across; corona mouth not markedly
frilled. Southern Spain.
N. calcicarpetanus Casas. Flowers suberect or horizontal, wholly yellow; corona
frilled 2.5–3 cm long, longer than perianth segments. North-central Spain.
N. confusus Pugsley. Similar to N. hispanicus (see below) but with green leaves and
corona less flared at mouth. Flowers wholly yellow, facing obliquely upwards.
Central Spain.
N. fontqueri Casas and Rivas Ponce. Related and very similar to N. nobilis (below).
Northern Spain.