Summer snowflake, in bud
Leucojum aestivum
Summer Snowflake · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 30 March 2025
A single stem of Summer Snowflake carrying the whole sequence at once: a flower fully open, one just splitting its papery green sheath, and two still-closed buds. Each bell has six white tepals tipped with a green spot, which is the mark that separates a snowflake from a snowdrop - a snowdrop's inner and outer segments are different lengths, a snowflake's are all the same. Despite the name it flowers in April, not summer; the "summer" is relative to the Spring Snowflake, which is out in February.
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