Mountain Bellwort

(Uvularia puberula)

 

   

 

 

Cook, 1823, Botanical Cabinet

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Mountain Bellwort (Uvularia puberula Michx.)

Identification: Flowers single, cream-yellow to yellow, petals not spreading and not as pointed as in Large-flowered Bellwort or Perfoliate Bellwort. Leaves sessile to the stem, stem not appearing to pierce leaf, and leaves rounded at the base. Stem slightly hairy. Plant 6 to 12 inches in height.

Distribution: New York in the north, southward to Georgia and Alabama.

Habitat: Mountain Bellwort is found in pine barrens or mountain forest.

Flowering period: April to May.

Similar Species: Mountain Bellwort is very close in appearance to Wild Oats. The base of the leaf of Mountain Bellwort is rounded at the base, but that of Wild Oats tapers towards its base. The stem of Mountain Bellwort is finely hairy, but smooth in Wild Oats.

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