| Leucojum
aestivum (popularly called Snowdrops, but more correctly called
Snowflakes) is a very common garden species that has become
established on some house sites in both urban and rural areas. It is a robust plant with a bulb,
the flowers are white with a green spot on each petal and sepal, and
are pendulous and in umbels. It is similar in general appearance to
the very common weed Allium triquetrum
but that species smells of garlic, has superior ovaries and the
petals and sepals have green stripes rather than green spots. |
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