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  2. Galanthus - Wikipedia

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    Galanthus nivalis: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885. Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, (gála, "milk") + ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.

  3. Sarcodes - Wikipedia

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    Sarcodes is the monotypic genus of a north-west American flowering springtime plant in the heath family , containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach to tree roots.

  4. Galanthus nivalis - Wikipedia

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    The epithet nivalis means "of the snow", referring either to the snow-like flower or the plant's early flowering. [ 4 ] The common name snowdrop first appeared in the 1633 edition of John Gerard 's Great Herbal (in the first edition (1597) he described it as the "Timely flowring Bulbus violet").

  5. Erica carnea - Wikipedia

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    The flowers are produced in racemes in late winter to early spring, often starting to flower while the plant is still covered in snow; the individual flower is a slender bell-shape, 4–6 mm (3 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, dark reddish-pink, rarely white.

  6. Frost flower - Wikipedia

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    Types of frost flowers include needle ice, frost pillars, or frost columns, extruded from pores in the soil, and ice ribbons, rabbit frost, or rabbit ice, extruded from linear fissures in plant stems. [1] The term "ice flower" is also used as synonym for ice ribbons, but it may be used to describe the unrelated phenomenon of window frost as well.

  7. Gentiana nivalis - Wikipedia

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    Gentiana nivalis, the snow gentian or Alpine gentian, is a species of the genus Gentiana. It grows to a height of 3–15 centimetres. It grows to a height of 3–15 centimetres. It is the county flower of Perthshire in the United Kingdom, and became a protected species in that country in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild ...

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  9. Ranunculus adoneus - Wikipedia

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    The plants emerge at the edge of the melting snow and flower within a few days. The flowering time of R. adoneus is controlled by the time of snowmelt, so that on a steep gradient flowers appear first on a lower altitude and subsequently, with melting of the snow, several tens of meters higher. They are found at an altitude of 2500 – 4000 meters.