False Lily of the Valley

Maianthemum dilatatum    

Height- 15-20cm

Light- Shade-part shade

Soil- Moist/mesic

Bloom time- Spring

Price/Size-  $6.50/3.5″

Green cup shaped leaves with white clusters of flowers often seen carpeting the forest floor throughout spring. Produces bright red berries in the fall that are great to leave for birds.  Fast growing ground cover, provides flowers for pollinators in the spring that later turn to small red berries that birds will eat over the winter months