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: 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (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, Basal, Parallel venation, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Raceme, White, Pink, Apr-May
Fruit: Berry (true), Red, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Leaves ovate to elliptic to lanceolate, up to 25cm x 8cm, 2 or 3 per plant. florets nodding, bell-shaped, sweetly fragrant, white, in a one-sided raceme up to 20cm long, April-May; fruit an orange-red poisonous berry with up to 6 seeds.