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Uvularia sessilifolia
Also called Wild Oats, Straw Lily, Sessile Leaf Bellwort, Sessile Bellwort, Sessile Leaved Bellwort
Sessileleaf bellwort is a small woodland perennial from eastern and central North America that spreads slowly by underground stolons. It thrives in cool, moist, shaded woodland soil, and cultivated forms like 'Blizzard' are grown for their variegated foliage.
Uvularia sessilifolia, the sessile bellwort, sessileleaf bellwort, little merrybells or wild oats, is a species of bellwort native to eastern and central North America. It grows in woodlands with wet or dry soils.
The strap-like leaves are sessile on the stem. The flowers are yellow, narrowly bell-shaped, and creamy yellow, blooming in spring. The leaves have no hairs on the margin and are somewhat narrow, distinguishing this plant from the similar Streptopus. They spread asexually by means of long under ground stolons with most plants in a clonal colony not flowering. Flowering plants often do not set seed, but when plants form seeds they are in three angled fruits.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Uvularia sessilifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
