The snowdrop is mostly distributed in the Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang (Urumqi, Bokda Mountain, Heshuo), the Tibetan Plateau and other places. It is also found in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is suitable for a variety of complex climatic environments and usually grows below the snow line in the high mountains.

Climate change, hot and cold, alternating rain and snow, the highest monthly average temperature of 3-5 ℃, the lowest monthly average temperature of -19 to 21 ℃, the annual precipitation of about 800 millimeters, the frost-free period of only 50 days or so, the soil is dominated by alpine meadow soil. Growing environment altitude lower limit of 2400 meters, altitude upper limit of 4000 meters.

Leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic; uppermost leaf bracts leaflike, membranous, yellowish, enclosing the raceme, with pointed teeth on the margin. Heads 10-20, crowded into globose racemes at stem apex.

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Growth habit

Snowdrops grow in extremely harsh environments, the environment in which it grows the average plant simply can not survive, but the snowdrops can be in the cold of dozens of degrees below zero and the oxygen-poor environment of the thin air. The snow lotus can grow in the cold of dozens of degrees below zero and in the environment of thin air and lack of oxygen.

It is the snow lotus but this unique survival habits and unique growth environment so that its natural and rare, snow lotus production is extremely low, snow lotus from germination to flowering needs to last five years;

The seeds germinate at zero degrees Celsius, three to five degrees Celsius growth, seedlings can withstand the low temperature of minus twenty-one degrees Celsius, the actual growth period is less than two months. In this short period of growth, the snow lotus by virtue of the exuberant vitality, plant height can exceed other plants five to seven times.