Giant snowdrop

Plants to 9–15(–20) cm; bulbs 2–3 × 1.5–2 cm. Leaves: vernation convolute, remaining so within basal sheath; blade narrowly oblanceolate, 10–30 × 0.5–2.5(–3.5) cm. Spathe 3–5 cm. Flowers: outer tepals white, elliptic to broadly obovate or nearly orbiculate, 2–2.5 × 1–2 cm; inner tepals white with green blotch at base and apex, or with green stripe from base to apex, narrowly obovate, 10–12 × (4–)6–7 mm; anthers 4–6 mm; ovary 5–8 × 4–5 mm; style 8–10 mm; pedicel (1.5–)3–4 cm.

Flowering late winter--spring. Roadsides, open forests, abandoned gardens; 0--300 m; introduced; N.Y., Pa.; se Europe; sw Asia (Turkey); expected elsewhere.