Image ID: 9738
Image by: Ware, Richard & Teresa
Image Collection: NCBG Digital Library
PLANT INDEX
ID_PLANT: UVPE
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Uvularia perfoliata
Include in WOTAS: 1
Publish to Web: 1
Last Modified: 2018-12-17
GENUS INDEX
GENUS CODE: UVULA GENUS SCIENTIFIC:Uvularia GENUS AUTHORITY: L. GENUS COMMON: Bellwort GENUS SUMMARY: A genus of about 5 species, of temperate eastern North America. GENUS IDENTIFICATION: GENUS REFERENCES: Wilbur (1963b)=Z; Uttal (1991)=Y; Utech & Kawano in FNA (2002a); Nordenstam in Kubitzki (1998a).
FAMILY INDEX
FAMILY CODE: COLCHI FAMILY SCIENTIFIC:Colchicaceae FAMILY AUTHORITY: A.P. de Candolle 1805 FAMILY COMMON: Meadow-saffron Family FAMILY SUMMARY: As here circumscribed, a family of about 15 genera and about 250 species, nearly cosmopolitan. FAMILY REFERENCE: Vinnersten & Manning (2007); Chac�n, Cusimano, & Renner (2014); Dahlgren, Clifford, & Yeo (1985); Nordenstam in Kubitzki (1998a).
NCBG DESCRIPTIVES
INTRO: Spring-flowering, slender understoryperennial with pale-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, found in moist to fairly dry hardwood forests. STEMS: Stems slender, smooth and waxy, branched above the lower few leaves. LEAVES: Leaves alternate,elliptic, 1½–4 in. long, smooth; distinctively pierced by the stem. INFLORESCENCE: FLOWERS: Bell-shaped flowers solitary or in small clusters, dangling from down-turned, slender stalks; consisting of 6 pale-yellow to straw-colored, sharp-tipped tepals with tiny glandular, orange bumps on the inner surface. FRUITS:Fruit a short, 3-lobed capsule with 2 ridges on each lobe. COMMENTS: HEIGHT: 6-18 in. DURATION:
Perennial
HABIT:
Herb
LEAF ARRANGEMENT:
Alternate LEAF COMPLEXITY:
Simple LEAF RETENTION: FLORAL CHARACTERISTICS
SYMMETRY:
Radial (Actinomorphic)
BLOOM TIME: Apr-early May
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BLOOM COLOR: Pale yellow
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FRUITING PERIOD: Jun-Aug. DISTRIBUTION
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NATIVE RANGE: eastern North America HORTICULTURAL
Plant Sale Text: Perfoliate Bellwort produces bell-shaped pale yellow flowers that hang down from its stems. The name refers to the way the stem seems to pierce through the leaf blade. Perfoliate Bellwort makes a wonderful addition to a woodland garden. This species is found growing in deciduous woods and upland thickets of the Piedmont and mountains of the eastern U.S. Orangish bumps on the petals differentiate this plant from large flowered bellwort. These choice wildflowers have been carefully propagated at NCBG and are rarely offered for sale.
This information is derived from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2016 National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.3 (Lichvar, R.W., D.L. Banks, W.N. Kirchner, and N.C. Melvin. 2016. The National Wetland Plant List: 2016 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2016-30: 1-17. Published 28 April 2016. ISSN 2153 733X). Regions: AGCP-Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, AK-Alaska, AW-Arid West, CB-Caribbean, EMP-Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, GP-Great Plains, HI-Hawaii, MW-Midwest, NCNE-Northcentral and Northeast, WMCV-Western Mountains, Valleys & Coast
WEAKLEY FLORA
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Uvularia perfoliata
COMMON NAME: Perfoliate Bellwort
SYNONYMY: [= C, F, FNA, G, K, Pa, RAB, S, Tn, Va, W, WH3, WV, Z]
PHENOLOGY: Apr-early May; Jun-Aug.
HABITAT: Moist to fairly dry hardwood forests.
COMMENTS: S. NH, s. ON, and c. OH, south to Panhandle FL and LA.
RANGE MAP: Uvularia perfoliata.png
Key to Map SymbolsABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora) Colchicaceae A.P. de Candolle 1805 (Meadow-saffron Family) SUMMARY: As here circumscribed, a family of about 15 genera and about 250 species, nearly cosmopolitan. REFERENCE: Vinnersten & Manning (2007); Chac�n, Cusimano, & Renner (2014); Dahlgren, Clifford, & Yeo (1985); Nordenstam in Kubitzki (1998a). ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora) Uvularia L. (Bellwort) SUMMARY: A genus of about 5 species, of temperate eastern North America. REFERENCE: Wilbur (1963b)=Z; Uttal (1991)=Y; Utech & Kawano in FNA (2002a); Nordenstam in Kubitzki (1998a).
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
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