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May Bells - Convallaria majalis All parts of this plant are highly poisonous. If ingested, symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, reduced heart rate, blurred vision, drowsiness, and red skin rashes. Approximately 38 different cardiac glycosides have been found in this species! <br />
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My great-grandmother grew this plant for herbal use, lol. When I was a child, I loved the flowers and desperately wanted to pick some, but my father wouldn&#039;t let me anywhere near the plants.<br />
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Habitat: Audubon garden edge<br />
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May Bells - Convallaria majalis

All parts of this plant are highly poisonous. If ingested, symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, reduced heart rate, blurred vision, drowsiness, and red skin rashes. Approximately 38 different cardiac glycosides have been found in this species!

My great-grandmother grew this plant for herbal use, lol. When I was a child, I loved the flowers and desperately wanted to pick some, but my father wouldn't let me anywhere near the plants.

Habitat: Audubon garden edge

    comments (4)

  1. How did your great-grandmother use it? Posted 3 years ago
    1. I have no idea. She was a true swamp yankee (rural, poor, resourceful) and never wasted a thing. She used many plants that would be questionable by today's standards. That generation was hardcore, as you know. Posted 3 years ago
      1. Sounds like a "natural selection" plant. Posted 3 years ago
        1. Lol, totally. Posted 3 years ago

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Lily of the valley, scientific name "Convallaria majalis", is a sweetly scented, highly poisonous woodland flowering plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe and in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States.

Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions
Species identified by Christine Young
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Uploaded Jan 8, 2022. Captured May 9, 2021 11:14 in 120 Library Rd, Southbury, CT 06488, USA.
  • Canon EOS 90D
  • f/13.0
  • 1/166s
  • ISO1000
  • 100mm