Mountain Bellwort

Rhizomes short, 0.5–1 cm, bearing numerous, clustered, fleshy roots; stolons absent. Stems 1–several, 1-branched, angled and puberulent distally, especially at nodes, 1–4.5 dm, bearing 1 leaf below lowest branch. Leaf blades sessile, broadly oblong-elliptic, 4–8(–8.5) × 1.5–3.5(–4) cm, puberulent on abaxial veins, margins minutely papillose, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers 1–3 per stem; peduncles 0.5–2 cm, ebracteate; tepals greenish to pale yellow, 10–25 × 2–4 mm, smooth adaxially, apex rounded; stamens 6.5–17 mm; anthers 5–12 mm; connectives 0.6–0.8 mm; ovary sessile or subsessile, sharply triangular; style 8–14 mm; stigma lobes 4–6 mm. Capsules sharply 3-winged, broadly ellipsoid, 1.5–3.7 × 1–2 cm, not beaked. Seeds 3–3.5 mm; arils crested. 2n = 14.

Ga., Md., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Flowering spring--early summer.

Moist to dry, open woods; 0--900m.

Oakesia puberula (Michaux) S. Watson; Oakesiella puberula (Michaux) Small; Uvularia pudica (Walter) Fernald

Uvularia puberula, the mountain bellwort, is a plant species native to the eastern United States. It is common across Virginia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia, and adjacent parts of northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky and southern Pennsylvania. Isolated populations have been found in southern Georgia, northern Alabama, southern New Jersey, and Long Island in New York State.

Uvularia puberula is a perennial herb with 1-3 pale yellow flowers per stem.