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|accepted_name=Galanthus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 288. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 140. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Snowdrop;perce-neige
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Galanthus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Galanthus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek gala, milk, and anthos, flower, alluding to the color of the flowers
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 55, 293
|treatment_page=page 280
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid to globose bulbs; offset bulbs often present. <b>Leaves</b> 2(–3), basal, opposite, with sheathing blade, vernation flat and parallel, or convolute; nonsheathing blade erect to recurving at maturity, grayish green, linear-oblanceolate, glaucous; sheathing blade white, tubular, membranous, enclosing leaf bases and scape. <b>Scape</b> erect in flower, prostrate in fruit, green, solid. <b>Inflorescences</b> pendulous, 1-flowered, spathaceous; spathe bracteate, membranous; bracts 2, connate, split on 1 side. <b>Flowers</b> nodding, fragrant; perianath 2.5 cm or shorter; tepals 6, distinct, unequal; outer tepals spreading, white, narrowly obovate to almost orbicular, larger than inner; inner tepals overlapping, appearing tubular, green-spotted at apex only or apex and base, straight to semiorbicular, apex notched; stamens 6, inserted at bases of tepals, distinct; anthers basifixed, longer than filaments, bases lobed, apices tapered, dehiscense introrse, via terminal slits; ovary inferior, green, 3-locular, globose, septal nectaries present; style, white, unbranched, filiform; stigma indistinct to minutely capitate; pedicel wiry, short, slender. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, green, globose, fleshy, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 18–36, light brown, 3.5 mm, oblong to obtuse, elaiosomes fleshy. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;sw Asia (Asia Minor;Iranian Caucasus;and Caspian Sea regions);introduced and naturalized elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Species 14–17 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A number of <i>Galanthus</i> species, especially <i>G. nivalis</i>, are commonly cultivated for their late- winter and early–spring flowers, which emerge through the snow. Species of <i>Galanthus</i> are sometimes confused with <i>Leucojum</i>, snowflakes, a spring-flowering relative. The plants of <i>Leucojum</i> are usually taller, bear 2–3 flowers per stem, and their tepals are all equal.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=davis1999a
|text=Davis, A. P. 1999. The Genus Galanthus. Portland.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=stern1956a
|text=Stern, F. C. 1956. Snowdrops and Snowflakes—A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum. London.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=yeo1975a
|text=Yeo, P. F. 1975. The hybrid origin of some cultivated snowdrops (Galanthus–Amaryllidaceae). Baileya 19: 157–162.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inner tepals blotched with green at base and apex or with green stripe from base to apex; leaves convolute within basal sheath.
|[[Galanthus elwesii|Galanthus elwesii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inner tepals blotched with green at apex only; leaves flat and parallel within basal sheath.
|[[Galanthus nivalis|Galanthus nivalis]]
|}
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name=Galanthus
|author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|illustrator=Kimberly J. Martin
|distribution=Europe;sw Asia (Asia Minor;Iranian Caucasus;and Caspian Sea regions);introduced and naturalized elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=davis1999a;stern1956a;yeo1975a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Galanthus
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