Error message
Unable to fetch location details at this time.
snowdrop
Galanthus nivalis
53.382, -1.46572
Field Notes
Description:
This pretty little winter flower is one of the earliest to flower in the UK often poking its dainty stems through the snow (hence its common name) snowdrops are.perennial, herbaceous plants which grow from bulbs. Each bulb generally produces just two or three linear leaves and an erect flowering stalk. It makes it so much nicer to look out of my window even when the snow is there.
Habitat:
This one was in my garden and had just been peeking its shoots through the ground before it got covered in snow last night. It is native to a large area of Europe, stretching from the Pyrenees in the west, through France and Germany to Poland in the north, Italy, Bulgaria, Northern Greece, Ukraine, and European Turkey. It has been introduced and is widely naturalised elsewhere. Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK.
Notes:
photos 4 and 5 after the snow had gone and when the buds had just opened.
Comments (16)