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Le Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). (The title, in French, does not refer to the English flower called "lily of the valley", which is called "muguet" in French).
Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis / ˌ k ɒ n v ə ˈ l ɛər i ə m ə ˈ dʒ eɪ l ɪ s /), [2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.
It is a genus with species Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley), and Convallaria pseudomajalis (American lily-of-the-valley). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The generic name means valley in Botanical Latin , in reference to the plant's natural geographical habitat.
Maianthemum dilatatum (snakeberry, two-leaved Solomon's seal or false lily of the valley) is a common rhizomatous perennial flowering plant that is native to western North America from northern California to the Aleutian islands, and Asia across the Kamchatka Peninsula, Japan, and Korea.
Maianthemum canadense (Canadian may-lily, Canada mayflower, false lily-of-the-valley, Canadian lily-of-the-valley, wild lily-of-the-valley, [3] two-leaved Solomon's seal) [4] is an understory perennial flowering plant, native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland, into St. Pierre and Miquelon. [4]
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Convallatoxin is a natural cardiac glycoside that can be found, among others, in the plant lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis). Legend says that Apollo gave this plant to Asclepios, the Greek god of healing. [1] Lily of the valley has indeed been used medicinally to treat illness, [2] all going back to medieval times
Maianthemum bifolium (false lily of the valley or May lily [1]) is often a localized common rhizomatous flowering plant, native from western Europe (including Britain [2]) east to Siberia, China and Japan.