Amaryllidaceae  

Mostly scapose, perennial herbs with well-developed, often large bulbs, sometimes also rhizomatous. Leaves usually basal and in a rosette, sessile or petiolate, simple; linear to broad, strap shaped. Scape usually with several- to many-flowered umbellate inflorescence. Flowers large, showy, regular, or somewhat irregular, bisexual, epigynous. Perianth segments fused to form a small or long tube, sometimes with a corona between the tube and the perianth lobes. Stamens 6, free, epitepalous, sometimes the filaments flattened, membranous and fused to form a false corona. Ovary inferior, 3-chambered, with 1-several ovules in each chamber on axile placentation; style 1, stigma capitate or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule or fleshy, globular berry-like.

It includes 65 genera of which 3 are represented in Saudi Arabia. Narcissus tazetta L., the Narcissus or Nargis is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental. Additionally, several bulbous ornamentals belong to this family.