| Scientific Name: | Convallaria majalis |
| Common Name: | lily-of-the-valley |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Pink, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Several shoots arising from rhizome, leaves ovate to elliptic to lanceolate, 12-25cm long x 3-8cm wide, only 2 or 3 per shoot; flowers nodding, bell-shaped, sweetly fragrant, white, in a one-sided raceme up to 20cm long with 5-10 flowers, April-May; fruit an orange-red poisonous berry with 1-6 seeds. | |