Summer Snowflake - Clough Wood

At a chance meeting with Simon Roddis yesterday he told me about a flowering Summer Snowflake he had seen at Clough Wood that morning. I went along in the afternoon and soon located the single flowering plant which was new to me.

Summer Snowflake Leucojum aestivum

Simon had consulted The Flora of Derbyshire which listed only one prior record, at Williamthorpe in 2002. There are two subspecies; aestivum from southern England and pulchellum from the western Mediterranean and like the Williamthorpe record the example in Clough Wood is probably pulchellum which is cultivated as a garden plant. So it's impossible to say what its origins might be.
An interesting record all the same and I'll be looking for it next year.