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Late Flowering Narcissus
Narcissus obsoletus

4.7 Endangered

name of participantsBased on: "The Red Book of Israeli Plants - Threatened Plants in Israel" by Prof. Avi Shmida, Dr. Gadi Pollack and Dr. Ori Fragman-Sapir
Update Time: Jan. 1, 2011, 7:39 a.m.

In Israel Narcissus serotinus
grows on the Carmel Coast and the northern Sharon at 18 documented sites.
According to estimates, there are a total of 22 sites. The northernmost sites
are located on the Carmel Coast in the HaHotrim Beach and HaBonim Beach area.
The largest populations are located on the calcareous sandstone ridges in the
area around
Ma’agan Mikhael-Bet Hanania.
In the northern Sharon it has almost disappeared from the Binyamina and Pardes
Hanna area, where carpets of
N. serotinus had been
previously documented. The southern sites in Israel are located in the Hadera Forest
and its surroundings and on Zeta Hill ("Tulip Hill") between Bet
Eliezer and Kfar Brandeis (Hilik Mador Haim). Some of the populations that were
known in this area are now extinct.

Pockets of dark soil between calcareous sandstone
rocks,
nazzazic hamra and marshy soil covered in sand,
sandy areas and marsh edges.

·        
The number of regions in which Narcissus serotinus appears is
stable, and it grows today, as in the past, on the Carmel Coast and in the Sharon.
The number and location of its sites in the Carmel Coast region is apparently
stable, but in the Sharon the number of sites has declined and at some of the
sites on which the plant was recorded in the past, around Binyamina, Pardes
Hanna and Hadera it is now extinct
.

·        
N. serotinus usually appears in
clearly defined patches containing hundreds or thousands of plants
.

·        
Some of the sites, especially in the northern
Sharon are located in inhabited areas. Development activities and land use changes
of natural areas and fallow fields may damage and destroy population patches at
additional sites
.

·        
N. serotinus is protected by
law in Israel by virtue of being a geophyte. On the Carmel Coast, it is
protected on the Dor-HaBonim Beach nature reserves, Darchemon ruins and the Taninim
Stream, but none of the northern Sharon sites is located in nature reserves
.

·        
N. serotinus does not appear in
the Red species lists of the Mediterranean countries.

Narcissus serotinus populations in Israel should
be monitored regularly, particularly the sites in the northern Sharon, in the Hadera
area. The areas where there are concentrations of
N. serotinus in the
Ma’agan Mikhael-Bet Hanania area and near Hadera should
be declared nature reserves or urban reserves.

Narcissus serotinus grows around the
Mediterranean in Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,
Israel, Morocco, and Algeria and also in Portugal. In the Mediterranean islands,
it is found in Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, the Aegean Islands, Crete and
Cyprus.

Narcissus
serotinus
is a rare geophyte that grows in Israel only on the Carmel Coast and in the
northern Sharon. It is endangered in Israel because of its relative rarity, the
attractiveness of its flowers, the vulnerability of its habitat and by virtue
of being a Mediterranean peripheral species that reaches the southern limit of
its range is in Israel.

 

פולק, ג., מדור-חיים, י. וגליל,י. 1985. צמחים נדירים בארץ/נרקיס אפיל. רתם 16: 46-54.
Blanchard, J. 1990. Narcissus – A Guide to Wild Daffodils. Alpine Garden Society.

name of participantsBased on: "The Red Book of Israeli Plants - Threatened Plants in Israel" by Prof. Avi Shmida, Dr. Gadi Pollack and Dr. Ori Fragman-Sapir

Current Occupancy Map

Current occupancy map for observations per pixel
1000 squre meter pixel 5000 squre meter pixel 10000 squre meter pixel
number of observations 0 0 0
in total pixels 0 0 0

FamilyAmaryllidaceae
ClassificationOn the endangered species list
EcosystemMediterranean
ChorotypeMediterranean
Conservation SiteMa’agan Mikhael Gravel and Bet Hanania

Rarity
1
2
6
Vulnerability
0
3
4
Attractiveness
0
3
4
Endemism
0
0
4
Red number
1
4.7
10
Peripherality W
IUCN category DD EW EX LC CR EN VU NT
Threat Definition according to the red book Endangered
2 (2) districts
Disjunctiveness: 0
20.0% of protected sites

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