Is snowflake a flower?

It is said that it is a flower without race, with six petals in the air. The north wind sent it to the fields, and all the mountains and plains were white. The answer is: snowflakes.

There are many shapes of snowflakes, and each snowflake is an extremely beautiful pattern, which even many artists admire. Snowflakes are mostly hexagonal, because snowflakes belong to hexagonal system. There are two main shapes of small ice crystals in the "embryo" of snowflakes in the cloud. One is hexagonal, slender and called columnar crystal, but sometimes its two ends are pointed and look like needles, called acicular crystal. The other is a hexagonal flake, just like a flake cut from a hexagonal pencil, called a flake crystal. Here are some common pictures of snowflakes: