An article, ‘Muguet! Lily-of-the-Valley in France’, elsewhere on this website, discusses the use of lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) on May Day in France.

May Day is also International Workers’ Day, and the poster for the Day shown here, produced in Belgium in 1932, incorporates lily-of-the-valley.

Information on the association of lily-of-the-valley and May Day outside France would be much appreciated; please send it to roy@plant-lore.com

Image reproduced from a Socialist Renewal booklet, May Day, Solidarity, celebration, struggle, Nottingham, 1996.