Plant: Lily-of-the-Valley
Lily-of-the-Valley · Convallaria majalis
$12.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
SpringSummer
More about this plant
A low rhizomatous groundcover from Eurasia, about 6 to 10 inches tall, with paired green leaves and fragrant white bell-shaped flowers in late spring. It grows slowly but spreads readily by rhizomes in moist shade and tolerates summer drought, deer and rabbits. All parts are toxic if eaten.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-7
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A low rhizomatous groundcover from Eurasia, about 6 to 10 inches tall, with paired green leaves and fragrant white bell-shaped flowers in late spring. It grows slowly but spreads readily by rhizomes in moist shade and tolerates summer drought, deer and rabbits. All parts are toxic if eaten.
- Flowers
- Fragrant, white, nodding bell-shaped flowers with six outward-curving lobes, held in a one-sided raceme below the leaves in late spring to early summer.
- Foliage
- Elliptical to ovate green leaves in pairs rising from a buried base.
- Fruit
- Red berries, which seldom form unless genetically different plants grow nearby.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Native range
- Eurasia
