Maianthemum bifolium (False lily of the valley or May lily) is often a localized common rhizomatous flowering plant, native from western Europe 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, 3-8 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, with small fine hairs on the veins. The flowers have 4 tepals, 4 stamens and have 2 chambers in the pistil; flowering is in mid spring to early summer. This species, along with Maianthemum canadense and Maianthemum dilatatum are the only 4-tepaled species. One to two seeds are produced in round berries that are speckled red when immature and redden with age. This species is found in the wild growing in open forests and on damp soils in grassy ditches and thickets.
The plant is poisonous.
The plants are growing in all the Nordic countries except the highest mountains. There it is disseminated deposits up to Finnmark.
The Hardangervidda goes up to 1,160 m
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Hvis man googler på det latinske navn, finder man ud af, at planten hedder almindelig majblomst eller blot majblomst på dansk. Har den ikke et norsk navn?
SvarSlettJeg har også prøvet med majlilje, men det navn ville kun Ordbog over det Danske Sprog kendes ved, og den mener, at det navn næppe bruges mere, men at det er den samme plante som majblomme. (Blomst var blomme på gammelt dansk.). Jeg slog så majblomme op i ODS og fandt, at det er dialekt og kan betyde liljekonval, engkabbeleje eller tusindfryd!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing the information about the plant as well as the pretty photos.
SvarSlettWe have those same flowers near by our house in the little forest area. :) Those are pretty!
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De är så vackra! Jag hittade bara knoppar senast jag var i skogen och nu har det bara regnat hela veckan.
SvarSlettLovely white beauties :)
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