Narcissus flower

[Thunderbird+]

Why is the flower 'narcissus', so called ? Does it have any relevance to clasical greek mythology?

[Big Al1st]

Greek mythology through a person named Narcissus, a ravishly beautiful youth who spurned all his suitors of both sexes, including the tragic Echo. However, he was fated to come by a spring on the heights of Mount Helicon one day, and when he saw his reflection in the water, he fell in love with it and would not want to leave it. As a result, he wasted away there, and became the flower Narcissus that always bows down its head to its image in the water at its feet.

[Lonnie]

Hi Thunderbird+, yor right on the Mythology aspect, the Gods changed Narcissus into the flower, I'm interested in Greek Myths, but I found this site which explained much more than I knew, not about the Mythology connection, but about the flower itself, but its all on there, just hope the link works.

www.flowers.org.uk/flowers/facts/k-r/narcissus.htm

[Thunderbird+]

Thank you both for your input, some interesting facts and trivia, medical uses too. Cheers. T bird.