Galanthus elwesii, Elwes's snowdrop or greater snowdrop, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Balkans and Asia Minor, where it is found in the countries of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey.

The flowers are globose, white, pendulous, 2–3 cm long, and solitary at the tip of a solid, pointed scape.

[5][6][7][8] Galanthus elwesii was identified by the British botanist Henry John Elwes on a visit to Turkey in 1874.

In early April, whilst in the mountains near Smyrna (modern Izmir), he came across "the fine large snowdrop which now bears my name".

It was then formally described by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1875) and named Galanthus elwesii, with an illustration by W H Fitch in Curtis's Botanical Magazine.