Seasonal Wild Flowers

Spring Snowflake

Leucojum vernum

Amaryllidaceae

February to March

It is grown in gardens throughout the country.

The naturalised escape is thinly scattered in the South and

East Anglia.

See the BSBI distribution map for Spring Snowflake

It is well naturalised in damp woodland and scrub, by water

and in damp grassy places.

Most, if not all, English populations are relics of cultivation.

It is a neophyte, first grown in England in the late 1590s

and known in the wild since the 1860s.

Some plants in Dorset and South Somerset may be native.

Spring Snowflake is a bulbous perennial herb that looks

like a cross between a Snowdrop and a Summer

Snowflake.

It grows up to 40cm and has white, bell-shaped flowers,

with green markings at the tip of the petals.

Leaves are dark green, and longer and broader than

in Snowdrop.

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Spring Snowflake, West Dorset

Group of flowers

Green markings on petals

Stamens and styles

Leaves