What do snowdrops look like:

1. Snowdrops look a bit like cabbage.

2. Snowdrops are beautiful, not afraid of the cold, standing proudly on top of the snowy mountains, for the cold mountains paved with spring color. Snowdrops individual is not high, out of the ground that is leaves; can resist strong winds, but also moisturizing, cold.

Snow lotus:

1. Snow lotus (scientific name: Saussurea involucrata (Kar. et Kir.) Sch.-Bip.), because of its top shape like a lotus, so named snow lotus, referred to as snow lotus. It is a perennial herb, 15-35 cm tall. Rhizome thick, neck covered with mostly brown leaf remains. Stem stout, glabrous. Leaves are crowded, basal and stem leaves sessile, leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic.

2. Uppermost leaves bracteate, membranous, yellowish, enclosing the raceme, margins with pointed teeth. Heads 10-20, crowded into a globose involucre at the top of the stem. Involucre hemispherical, 1 cm in diam.; involucral bracts 3-4-layered, margins or all purple-brown. Florets purple. Achenes oblong. Crown hairs dirty white. Flowering and fruiting period July-September.