Greater Snowdrop - Galanthus elwesii
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)
other Galanthus
Photographs should show basal arrangement of leaves
gardens, parks, roadside verges, churchyards
early Spring
commonly planted in gardens, etc., and may survive in the wild as a garden throw-out
see the BSBI guide to snowdrops http://bsbi.org.uk/Snowdrop_identification.pdf
Orientalis
Holy Cross RC Priory
09 February 2024
Flower with green cross.
Orientalis
Holy Cross RC Priory
09 February 2024
Leaves that are much broader than G. nivalis.
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- Common names
- Greater Snowdrop
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- 09/02/2024 (Riggall, Jack)
- Last record:
- 09/02/2024 (Riggall, Jack)
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