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Maianthemum (Greek, Mayflower). Syn. Uni- folium. Liliaceae. Small spring-blooming woodsy perennials, good for colonizing.

Convallaria-like, with slender rootstocks and 1-3- Ivd. sts. that are 3-8 in. or more high and bear a few white 4-parted small fls. in a raceme; segms. separate or practically so, spreading or reflexed, deciduous; stamens 4, inserted at base of segms; ovary 1; style 1, 2-lobed: fr. a globular 2-celled and 1-2-seeded berry.— Species 2 (by some considered only 1), in the cool parts of northern hemisphere. They make interesting mats or colonies in shady places. M. canadense, Desf. (Unifolium canadense, Greene), native in moist cool woods from Newfoundland to N. C. and west, usually has 2 (1-3) ovate or ovate- lanceolate sessile or very short-petioled lvs. on the st. and many radical lvs. in the spreading colony, cordate at base with narrow sinus: raceme 1-2 in. long, usually many - fld., rather dense; fls. white, the segms. longer than the stamens: berry pale red, speckled: foliage dies in summer. M. bifolium, DC. (M. Convallaria, Web.) is the European and Asiatic species: lvs. 2, stalked, triangular-cordate: st. 6-8 in. high from a filiform root: raceme spike-like. Var. kamtschaticum, Jepson, Calif, to Alaska and Siberia, is 4-14 in. high, often stout: lvs. ovate or triangular-cordate, the petiole of the lower one sometimes longer than the blade, the radical If. very long-petioled and almost as tall as fl—st.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->

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