Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Perfiolate Bellwort |
| Scientific Name | Uvularia perfoliata L. |
| Family Name | Liliaceae (Lily Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | moist woods, prefers acid soils |
| Plant Height: | 20-40 cm at anthesis (full maturity), growing taller later, forking above |
| Flower Color: | yellow |
| Flower: | 6 tepals, conspicuously glandular and papillose inside tepals |
| Inflorescence: | 1-3 flowers on fertile branches |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaves: | 1-4 below forking branch; several leaves on fertile branch; perfoliate (basal margin connate around stem), oval to lance-oblong; glabrous beneath |
| Bloom Time: | June |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | see also U. gradiflora |
| general habit | leaves | close up of flower | form |
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