A perennial, monocot herb in the genus Narcissus, of which there are about 50 species (family Amaryllidaceae) native to Europe, western Asia, and North America, but widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. It grows from bulbs and flowers in spring, singly or with up to 20 usually white or yellow flowers borne at the tip of a leafless stem, each flower having a central corona surrounded by a whorl of three sepals and three petals united at the base to form a tube.