Talk:List of Narcissus species

Should it be, and if it is to be...
Several issues, if this article is to remain:
 * its title should refer to cultivars, rather than varieties; the latter is vague and might refer to either species or cultivars;
 * daffodil should probably be changed to narcissus for consistency with Narcissus (plant) (Daffodil redirects there;
 * since the number of named, registered daffodil cultivars runs to five digits, a general list of this sort will quickly become unmanageable—so some sort of culling will be necessary (perhaps limited to cultivars notable enough for their own articles) and probably some alphabetical splitting as well.

I'm not quite sure the article should remain, though. It's a great topic and a fun list, but is a purely alphabetical list of cultivars useful in any meaningful way? As a WP entry, it provides far less information about daffodil cultivars than can be obtained on other sites. (Incidentally, I have removed the WikiProject tag, since its relation to the topic here seems tenuous at best). Rivertorch (talk) 03:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Having been working at Narcissus (plant) I saw this article as well. I agree with your comments, especially the overall size, and so I've moved it to Narcissus species. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Great. Thank you. I'd been meaning to get back to this for months. Rivertorch (talk) 17:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. One thing I forgot to mention was the blue links in this version. None of them went to an article about daffodils. They were all about something else. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 22:38, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm. There were a lot of them. If I had time, I'd follow each link and learn something! I'll try to devote some time to the main daffodil article in the next few days. I have some sourcing to add, among other things. One thing I'm wondering is whether some further discussion of cultivars would help the article. Rivertorch (talk) 00:20, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Authoritative list of species
The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families is currently regarded as the most authoritative list for those families it covers. So I updated the list of species to this set of names. Any names already there were kept as synonyms.

If there is evidence that there is another, more reliable source, then it can of course be used (provided it is referenced), but please discuss here first. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:03, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The references all refer to cultivars not species - I am adding taxonomic information on the Narcissus (plant) page. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 12:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * "all"? The WCSP and the second RHS ref are about the species. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

paperwhite species
Please include a list of the paperwhite species. The article Narcissus (plant) has good content about "'Paperwhite form", but is vague about specifics.-71.174.190.122 (talk) 16:16, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * "Narcissus papyraceus, one of a few species known as paperwhite..." Narcissus papyraceus

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A major species seems to be missing
Where has the type species of section Pseudonarcissus, Narcissus pseudonarcissus gone? -- Martinus KE (talk) 13:27, 26 December 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ – After some digging in the article history, I think it was a missing line break that caused an issue with wiki table syntax which in turn made Narcissus pseudonarcissus "disappear" completely from the table. This accidental error slipped in during the large revision on January 3, 2015, between 13:46 and 13:58 (... and no reader spotted it since ...).
 * Inserting a line break made the species reappear now. -- Martinus KE (talk) 14:03, 26 December 2020 (UTC)