A perennial bulb with pale yellow tepals surrounding a darker trumpet, and narrow greyish-green leaves. Native to western Europe from Iberia to Germany and Britain, now naturalised widely; every part of the plant is toxic, containing the alkaloid lycorine.
Taxonomy
- Kingdom / phylum / class
- Plantae · Tracheophyta · Liliopsida
- Order / family / genus
- Asparagales · Amaryllidaceae · Narcissus
Conservation
IUCN Red List assessment