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Maianthemum bifolium

Maianthemum bifolium (Asparagaceae) 143 20

 

Maianthemum bifolium (false lily of the valley or May lily) is often a localized common rhizomatous flowering plant, native from western Europe to the east to Siberia, China, and Japan.

Non-flowering stems usually have only one waxy leaf, but on flowering plants there is one basal leaf that withers away before flowering, and two stem leaves produced alternately up the 10–20 cm tall stems, which are topped off with many star-shaped white flowers. The leaves are heart to triangular with small fine hairs on the veins. The flowers have four tepals, four stamens, and have two chambers in the pistil; flowering is in mid-spring to early summer. This species is found in the wild growing in open forests and on damp soils in grassy ditches and thickets.

 

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