What does a snowdrop look like?

We - residents of big cities - quite often do not really know what this or that plant that lives in the wild looks like. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to walk through the forest, meadows and fields for the purpose of self-education in this area.

But, for example, your little child, having heard the fairy tale “Twelve Months,” may ask you the question: “And what does a snowdrop look like"And you won’t be able to really explain it to him, because you’ve never seen this beautiful spring flower in person.

Snowdrops are the harbingers of spring; they appear from under the snow in late February - early March. They begin to bloom in April, but if the weather is warm, then earlier. The snowdrop plant is very delicate, fragile, its flowers are snow-white in color, and the tips of the petals are soft green.

Snowdrops grow up to about 15 cm, their leaves are dark green. Snowdrops are classified as perennial bulbous plants.

Snowdrops grow under trees and bushes. Quite often, not knowing what a snowdrop looks like, it is confused with a plant such as white flower. What distinguishes the snowdrop from it is the number of inner petals with green tips: the snowdrop has three of them, and they are surrounded by three larger white petals.

Unfortunately, snowdrops have long been listed in the Red Book. There are not many of them left, but people continue to pick them instead of preserving this most delicate spring flower. Some species of snowdrops are on the verge of extinction.

And although snowdrops can stand plucked in the water for a very long time, it is still better to admire them in the conditions of their natural growth, and not to destroy this miracle of nature.