Common name: Lily-of-the-Valley
Family: Liliaceae, Lily
Height x width: 1' x 2-3'
Growth rate: moderate to fast spreading (spread most in cool, moist)
Foliage: dark green, basal, entire
Flowers: generally white, mildly fragrant (best enjoyed indoors), 5-8 per stem, drooping
Hardiness: prefer zones 2-5, tolerate zones 6-7, struggle in zone 8
Soil: prefer moist, tolerate dry
Light: sun to part shade zones 2-5, shade zones 6-8
Pests and problems: aphids, slugs
Landscape habit, uses: shade groundcover, front of border, along walks, massing
Other interest: relatively easily forced indoors, good cut flower especially sought for weddings, native to most of northern hemisphere
Other culture:
Propagation: division immediately after flowering
Species:
majalis (ma-jal' iss)--only species in genus, as above
Cultivars:
| Cultivars, other taxa | species | flowers | other |
| 'Albostriata' | majalis | white | leaves striped white |
| 'Fortin's Giant' | majalis | larger than species | 12-15" tall |
| 'Flore Pleno' ('Plena') | majalis | cream, double | longer bloom than species |
| 'Prolificans' | majalis | double, tight clusters | |
| var. rosea ('Rosea) | majalis | light pink | |
| 'Variegata' ('Striata') | majalis | white | leaves striped pale yellow |
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