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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Convallaria pseudomajalis
FAMILY
Ruscaceae
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Learn more about Convallaria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Convallaria majuscula
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Convallaria majalis var. montana
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
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Convallaria majalis
COMMON NAME:
American Lily-of-the-valley
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JK Marlow jkm250423_2602
April SC
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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 (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm070519_076
May Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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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 (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm230523_3365
May SC
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JK Marlow jkm230523_3369
May SC
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Ron Lance rwl_20220510_150451
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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Samantha Tessel sam051124_c_pseudo_9219
May SC
Inflorescence only about half as high as the height of the leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Convallaria pseudomajalis
FAMILY
Ruscaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Convallaria majuscula
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Convallaria majalis var. montana
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
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Convallaria majalis
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Mountain forests, particularly in rocky woodlands or forests on or near ridgetops under northern red oak at about 1000 to 1500 m elevation, sometimes at lower elevations (down to at least 700 m) and under Quercus montana, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (2, rarely 3), scapose but appearing leafy-stemmed from sheathing petioles
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals almost completely connate, perianth campanulate
6 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Orange
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p099
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p172
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p028
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p357
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p412
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p007
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