In article , Len Jones wrote:
The book is _Making the Most of Life_ by J.R. Miller. The description occurs
in the first text paragraph of Chapter 22: God's Winter Plants.

http://making-the-most-of-life.jr-mi...er-plants.html

I was hoping to put a picture of the Siberian Snow Flower on line.

The description shows a lack of basic knowledge about botany, e.g. seeds
don't form on anthers, the male or pollen-producing portion of a flower,
so it's unlikely that you'll be able to identify the plant the author
was trying to describe.

It sounds *very* vaguely like some species of Trillium, which is a spring
ephemeral, and produces normal sorts of seeds below the flower a few
months after bloom. They are early, but the soil is throughly thawed by
the time they come up -- they aren't as early as some other spring bulbs
that bloom through snow, like Eranthis and some Crocus spp. I don't know
if there are Trillium spp in Siberia, but a number of NW Canadian genera
are found in Kamchatka and adjacent areas.

Is there a specialist site that deals with northern plants?

You can look for tundra or alpine vegetation. If you find a good site,
let us know.