Spring snowflake Leucojum vernum

Features

The plant is poisonous! Because it is very attractive and among the early flowering flowers, people like to collect it for bouquets or plant it in gardens. The compounds in the plant are said to alleviate the effect of Alzheimer’s disease, but can cause poisoning in large quantities.

Species	Perrenial
Living space	Deciduous forest, Swamp, Wet site
Size	10-30 cm

Description

Leucojum vernum is a perennial bulbous plant, 12–30 cm tall in flower. Its leaves, which appear at the same time as the flowers and continue to elongate during flowering, are 5–25 mm wide and 10–25 cm long, generally reaching to below the level of the flowers. The flowering stem (scape) has a small central cavity and two narrow wings. The pendant flowers appear in spring and are usually solitary, rarely in an umbel of two. The flowers have six white tepals, each with a greenish or yellowish mark just below the tip. Each tepal is 15–25 mm long. The whitish seeds are about 7 mm long.