Wild daffodil - Narcissus pseudonarcissus

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Wild daffodil - Narcissus pseudonarcissus
© Dr Chris Gibson/English Nature

The wild daffodil is a more delicate and graceful plant than its cultivated counterparts, with a pale yellow perianth around a golden-yellow trumpet. The strap-like, upright, grey-green leaves of the wild daffodil are also distinctive. It is of course a bulb plant flowering from February to April, often in the massed, dancing displays famously observed by Wordsworth.

True wild daffodils are more common than is often supposed, but have a patchy distribution, generally on moist banks in open oak or ash woods. Most daffodils seen outside such places will be escaped cultivated varieties. The wild form is available from specialist outlets, and 'fits' a wild garden better than any cultivar. Another very pretty semi-wild daffodil is the Tenby daffodil, found on verges and hedgebanks in south Wales.

Animals

Greater bulb fly

Foliage	Green
Flower	Yellow, March to April
Moisture	(Average)
Sunlight	(Part-shade)
Origin	Native