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Convallaria

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Convallaria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as lily-of-the-valley. It includes three species native to temperate Eurasia and the east-central United States. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Convallaria keiskei || southeastern Siberia, Japan, Korea, northern, central, and southeastern China, Mongolia, and Myanmar |- |120px ||Convallaria majalis – lily-of-the-valley|| Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, and central Siberia |- |120px ||Convallaria pseudomajalis – American lily-of-the-valley; || east-central United States (southern Appalachians f

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Convallaria is a genus of plants within the family Asparagaceae. It belongs to the order Asparagales, class Liliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The genus is part of the subfamily Convallarioideae. Its common name is lily of the valley, and it is also referred to as Solomon's plume.

The genus has been introduced to various locations, including Alabama, Altay, Arkansas, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Kansas, Labrador, and Maine. Specimens have been recorded in the United States, China, Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. The taxon is not extinct.

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Species

Solomon's plume

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyAsparagaceae
Native toAlbania, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Czechia-Slovakia
Observations107,292
Observations recorded479,416

Verbreitungskarte von Convallaria: 1. Convallaria majalis L., 2. Convallaria keiskei, 3. Convallaria pseudomajalis Die Pflanzengattung Convallaria gehört zur Unterfamilie Nolinoideae innerhalb der Familie der Spargelgewächse (Asparagaceae). Die etwa drei Arten sind in den gemäßigten Breiten der Nordhalbkugel weit verbreitet.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
138
With media
86
Family
Asparagaceae
Collections
MSC, US, KSTC, UPS, ANSP, NO
Recorded in
United States, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic Of, India

Research

299 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Convallarioideae
Image
Convallaria-majalis-flowers.JPG
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taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Convallaria
taxon name
Convallaria
topic's main category
Category:Convallaria
taxon common name
šmarnica
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Convallaria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as lily-of-the-valley. It includes three species native to temperate Eurasia and the east-central United States. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Convallaria keiskei || southeastern Siberia, Japan, Korea, northern, central, and southeastern China, Mongolia, and Myanmar |- |120px ||Convallaria majalis – lily-of-the-valley|| Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, and central Siberia |- |120px ||Convallaria pseudomajalis – American lily-of-the-valley; || east-central United States (southern Appalachians from West Virginia to Georgia) |- |}

The generic name means valley in Botanical Latin, in reference to the plant's natural geographical habitat.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Convallaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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