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Common Name: Summer Snowflake
Scientific Name: Leucojum aestivum
Family Name: Amaryllidaceae
Hwy. 108
Tryon, North Carolina
April 11, 2002
Cultivated since 1594
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Strap-shaped leaves and nodding, bell-shaped, white flowers with segments tipped green. Easy to grow and permanent. Naturalize under deciduous trees, in shrub borders or orchards, or on cool slopes. Plant 4 inches deep in fall. Do not disturb until really crowded; then dig, divide, and replant after foliage dies down. One of the classic pass-along bulbs of the South, shared by gardeners, for centuries and on old home sites. Names "summer snowflake" by gardeners in Europe, where it blooms in summer and has been cultivated since 1594. Leaves 1 - 1-1/2 feet long. Stems 1-1/2 feet tall carry three to five 1-inch flowers. 'Gravetye Giant' is a bit taller and larger flowered than the species; it has as many as nine flowers per stem. Plants need little winter chill to bloom well; even bloom dependably as far south as central Florida. In the Coastal South, plants bloom November through winter; elsewhere, they bloom in late winter and early spring with early daffodils. [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
