Galanthus plicatus subspecies are recognized: "Galanthus plicatus" is native from eastern Europe (Romania, Ukraine and Crimea) through Turkey to the north-west Caucasus. "G. plicatus" subsp. "plicatus" is found throughout the range of the species, "G. plicatus" subsp. "byzantinus" only in north-west Turkey. The species is found in woodland and scrub, usually in shade. Galanthus plicatus Galanthus plicatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native from Romania, Ukraine and Crimea in eastern Europe to north Turkey and the north-west Caucasus in Asia. "Galanthus plicatus" is a bulbous perennial plant, growing to about 15 cm tall. Its leaves are bluish
Galanthus nivalis (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane. From between them emerges a solitary, pendulous, bell-shaped white flower, held on a slender pedicel. The flower consists of six tepals, also referred to as segments. The outer three are larger and more convex than the inner ones. The inner flower segments are usually marked on their outer surface with a green or greenish-yellow V- or U-shaped mark (sometimes described as "bridge-shaped") over the small sinus (notch) at the tip of each tepal. The inner surface has a faint green mark covering