F ew flowers from a small portion of Europe and Asia are as universally known as the Edelweiss.Thanks to its prominent use in popular media like The Sound of Music, this flower remains as well ...

German artist Rita Fürstenau has created a cross-stitch-style Google Doodle to celebrate the edelweiss, the most romantic of Alpine blooms. The common name for Leontopodium nivale, which means ...

Edelweiss: Eternal flower of the highlands - Fri, July 11, 2008 - The Jakarta Post Most flower lovers are familiar with edelweiss -- a protected white flower that can be found only in mountainous ...

No, it’s not edelweiss. I mean, edelweiss is pretty and all, and it’s about as Swiss as you can get—it’s the penultimate alpine flower: “small and white, clean and bright” dah-dee-dah ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the edelweiss, a rare and beautiful flower found high on the rocky slopes of the Alps and Carpathians. The edelweiss blooms from June to September, well above 5900 ...

“The Edelweiss was the favourite flower of Adolf Hitler. For that reason it was used as a symbol by the Nazis,” says the curator of the national exhibition. In 1935, ...