Summer Snowflake - Leucojum aestivum
A bulbous plant to 50cm tall, with long, narrow leaves and up to 8 bell-shaped, green-tipped white flowers on a leafless stem.
Occasionally occurs as an escape from cultivation on roadside verges or tips.
Flowering in spring.
Bulbous perennial.
Scattered records from around Britain.
Rare as a naturalised plant in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
stepgray4
Holwell Reserves
24 April 2021
Andy's Rutland
North Brook Lakes
06 May 2018
David Nicholls
Botcheston, Markfield Lane
04 April 2020
Dylan
Melton Queensway
05 April 2025
Andy's Rutland
North Brook Lakes
06 May 2018
Andy's Rutland
North Brook Lakes
06 May 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Loddon Lily, Summer Snowflake
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Amaryllidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 06/05/2018 (Dejardin, Andrew)
- Last record:
- 05/04/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Andy's Rutland
North Brook Lakes
06 May 2018
