What is the purpose of a daffodil flower?

Daffodils (narcissus) are there to remind us not to be too vain and fall in love with ourselves like Narcissus, because he looked and looked and looked...at himself until the gods finally turned him into a flower.





A yellow narcissus.





A daffodil.





So avoid narcissism!





Also, they're pretty, and pretty flowers mean that people like to grow them and they don't pull them up and throw them away. I suppose it also helps with pollination...but most daffodils grow by root propagation, not seeds.





What's the purpose of ANY flower, really? To be pretty, to help with reproduction, to make the plant valuable in the ecosystem, to keep it from being yanked up by angry yard owners.

What is the purpose of a daffodil flower?
To draw bees to spred pollen to reproduce itself.
Reply:Purpose is given individually by each who uses them. As they do not necessarily have a set goal because they were not made to form a particular tool for people, the uses are as individual as the people who enjoy their use.





I use them, if you will, for beauty, for atmosphere, for enjoyment, for stress reduction, and for reminders of my great-aunt, who loved them without reservation and kept thousands of them in her yard in all different color varietals.
Reply:to make daffodil seeds. However, its commercially more profitable to sell its bulbs.
Reply:The reason I grow them is they are the only bulb moles and gophers don't eat, they love tulips though.
Reply:for bees to polinate and they smell so good and it is a spring flower.
Reply:All flowers , trees , shrubs and etc. are put here for their beauty , growing fruit and many other purposes but the most common is to absorb carbon dioxide and during a process they give off oxygen that we need . Chief Bonnell
Reply:I grow them for their beauty and to symbolize the start of spring!