spring snowflake
Leucojum vernum
RHS AGM 1993
USDA zones3 to 9
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size8 to 18 inches tall4 to 6 inches wide
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Clumping
- Bloom season
- Spring, winter
- Bloom color
- Green, white
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum) is a bulb for borders, rock gardens, and woodland gardens. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist soil of most types. Its pendulous white bells have green spots on each petal and open a few weeks after snowdrops. Deer and rabbits usually look elsewhere for a meal. Bees visit the flowers for early nectar.
Pairs well with Cheerfulness daffodil, Western sword fern, and Spanish bluebell.
Native range
Europe and from Belgium & Poland to Pyrenees & Yugoslavia.