Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leucojum aestivum
Common name
Snowflake, Loddon Lily
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Where found
Near old habitations, and roadsides. Grows from dumped garden waste. Coast and ranges north from the Wollongong district.
Notes
Introduced herb arising each year from a bulb. Leaves basal, 25–50 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, hairless, dark green. Flower stalks 0.4–0.6 m long, compressed, biconvex in cross section, with 2 prominent margins. Flowers scented, nodding. Flowers with 6 'petals', white with green spots near the tips, each 10–16 mm long, spreading. Flower clusters 1–5-flowered. Flowering: autumn to early spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leucojum~aestivum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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