Greater Snowdrop

Greater Snowdrop - Galanthus elwesii

Description

White flowers variously marked with green, similar to other snowdrops; there are hybrids and cultivated varieites with slightly different markings.  Greyish-green leaves, wider than the common snowdrop, with hooded tips.  The base of the outer leaf is wrapped around the inner leaf; in other snowdrops the two leaves are side by side at the base. 

The BSBI has a key to common UK snowdrops here: https://bsbi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/Snowdrop_identification.pdf (M J Crawley, 2010)

Similar Species

other Galanthus

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photographs should show basal arrangement of leaves

Habitat

gardens, parks, roadside verges, churchyards

When to see it

early Spring

VC55 Status

commonly planted in gardens, etc., and may survive in the wild as a garden throw-out

Further Information

see the BSBI guide to snowdrops http://bsbi.org.uk/Snowdrop_identification.pdf

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