Opinions vary as the status of this taxon.

Zonnefeld (2208) discusses its status, believing both on genetic information and morphology and distribution that it is a separate species from Narcissus triandrus.

While Webb (1980) and Barra Lazaro (2000) consider it a variety or subspecies of the type species of the section (N. triandrus).

he is supported in this by both Dorda and Fernandez Casas (1989) and Perez-Barrales et al.

[3] However officially according to the World Checklist and The Plant List it is considered Narcissus cernuus.