Galanthus nivalisL.

common snowdrop

WFO wfo-0000768822 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. a Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 200440104
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195089110
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Sashko
fig. c Sashko, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201875730
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193864359
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. e xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190391151
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. f Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196836936
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193110211
Galanthus nivalis, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. h Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191475854

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Flowering n = 10,920 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 10,920 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chianthemum nivale (L.) Kuntze
  • Galanthus alexandri Porcius
  • Galanthus imperati Bertol.
  • Galanthus melvillei Voss
  • Galanthus montanus Schur
  • Galanthus nivalis f. pictus K.Malý
  • Galanthus nivalis f. platypetalus Beck
  • Galanthus nivalis f. pleniflorus P.D.Sell
  • Galanthus nivalis subsp. imperati (Bertol.) K.Richt.
  • Galanthus nivalis var. atkinsii Mallett
  • Galanthus nivalis var. carpaticus S.S.Fodor
  • Galanthus nivalis var. hololeuca Celak.
  • Galanthus nivalis var. majus Ten.
  • Galanthus nivalis var. minus Ten.
  • Galanthus nivalis var. scharlockii Casp.
  • Galanthus nivalis var. spitzneri Podp.
  • Galanthus scharlockii (Casp.) Baker
  • Galanthus umbricus Hort.Dammann

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.