Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Convallaria pseudomajalis
FAMILY
Ruscaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Convallaria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Convallaria majuscula
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-11-001b:
Convallaria majalis var. montana
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ILLEGITIMATE AND SUPERFLUOUS NAME)
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Convallaria montana
COMMON NAME:
American Lily-of-the-valley
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JK Marlow jkm070519_065
May Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Raceme bracts linear and at least as long as any individual flower stalk, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm070519_076
May Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm070519_079
May Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Inflorescence only about half as high as the height of the leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm160502_086
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
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JK Marlow jkm160502_090
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
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JK Marlow jkm160502_091
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
Leaves widely elliptic to oblanceolate, 6-12" long, 2-5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Ron Lance rwl_20220510_150451
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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Tim Spira tps_cmajuscula
May
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Convallaria pseudomajalis
FAMILY
Ruscaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Convallaria majuscula
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-11-001b:
Convallaria majalis var. montana
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ILLEGITIMATE AND SUPERFLUOUS NAME)
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Convallaria montana
364
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont, rare in SC), endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Look for it in mountain forests, particularly in rocky woodlands or forests on or near ridgetops under northern red oak at about 1000 to 1500m elevation, sometimes at lower elevations (down to at least 700m) & under Quercus montana, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (2, rarely 3), scapose but appearing leafy-stemmed from sheathing petioles
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals almost completely connate, perianth campanulate
6 included stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Orange
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p172
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p026
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p028
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p357
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p412
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p007