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Stace 4:

Galanthus elwesii Hook. f. (G. caucasicus auct. non (Baker) Grossh.) - Greater Snowdrop.

Stems to 25cm; leaves 5-30 x 0.6-3cm at flowering, inrolled, hooded at apex, oblanceolate, wholly glaucous; outer tepals 15-30mm; inner tepals 8-13mm, with green patches at base and apex or at apex only; (2n=24). Neophyte-naturalised; commonly grown in gardens, naturalised in woods and damp grassland; very scattered in Britain North to Moray (mainly South England), County Waterford; South East Europe to Caucasus.

Key:

• Leaves flat, or with margins inrolled especially when young, or weakly folded under only near base when young
• leaves oblanceolate, at least one >1.5cm wide at flowering