Common Name: Spring Snowflake

Genus: Leucojum vernum

Family: Amaryllidaceae

Lynn, North Carolina

March 23, 2002

Spring Snowflake Leucojum aestivum.jpg (92138 bytes)

Strap-shaped leaves and nodding, bell-shaped, white flowers with segments tipped green. Leaves 9 inches long. In earliest spring, each foot-long stem bears a single large white flower (occasionally two per stem). Spring [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]

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