Common Snowdrop

A perennial that is often found in large, dense tufts, it is generally known as one of the first harbingers of spring. Each scape of up to 30 cm always bears one solitary flower, composed of longer outer tepals (white), and shorter inner tepals (which have a green mark near the tip). It flowers from February to April, and propagates via bulbs that in summer and fall are a few centimeters beneath the surface. The Common Snowdrop grows on humus-rich soils, usually in floodplain forests and other humid deciduous forests, on humid meadows along rivers, and in parks.