Negrași Daffodil Meadow
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The Negrași Daffodil Meadow () is a protected area near Negrași Commune, in
Argeș County Argeș County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Pitești. Demographics At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, the county had a population of 569,932 and the population density was . At the 2011 Ro ...
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Muntenia Muntenia (, also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as ''Muntenia'', ''Țara Românească'', and the rarely used ''Valahia'' are synonyms in Ro ...
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Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. It was declared as a natural reservation on June 24, 1966.


Position and accessibility

The Daffodil Meadow is situated in the southern part of Argeș County, in the Găvanu-Burdea Plains, near the confluence of
Dâmbovnic The Dâmbovnic is a right tributary of the river Neajlov in Romania. It discharges into the Neajlov in Obedeni. Its length is and its basin size is . Geography The river flows through four different counties: Argeș, Dâmbovița, Teleorman and ...
River and its tributary, Mozacu. It is a remote, unpolluted area. It is located at from Piteşti, in the area of Negrași Commune, at about from Rociu. The access route is the county road DJ503. It is usually closed in winter.


Natural Reservation

The reservation has and protects a rare daffodil, ''
Narcissus poeticus ''Narcissus poeticus'', the poet's daffodil, poet's narcissus, nargis, pheasant's eye, findern flower or pinkster lily, was one of the first daffodils to be cultivated, and is frequently identified as the narcissus of ancient times (although ' ...
'', ssp. ''Radiiflorus''.


Local importance

Every May 13, a daffodil festival is held in Negrași.http://www.argesmedia.ro/.../comuna-negrasi-a-aniversat-a-40-a-editie-a-sarbatorii-narciselor-


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Negrasi Daffodil Meadow Geography of Argeș County Protected areas of Romania Grasslands of Romania Meadows