Edelweiss
Leontopodium nivale (Ten.) A.Huet ex Hand.-Mazz.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Formerly Gnaphalium nivale
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Subalpine or subarcticKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- European Mts.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 41 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Alpen-Edelweiß
- Italian
- Stella alpina
- Spanish
- flor de las nieves
- Norwegian Bokmål
- edelweiss
- Dutch
- Edelweiss
- Danish
- Edelweiss
- Russian
- Эдельвейс снежный
- Slovenian
- Planika
- Polish
- Szarotka alpejska
- Ukrainian
- Едельвейс альпійський
- Romanian
- Floare de colț
- Chinese (China)
- 雪绒花, 雪层火绒草, 白火绒草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Leontopodium nivale (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.