- Uvularia sessilifolia
Taxobox
name = Sessile Bellwort
image_width = 200px
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo =Liliales
familia =Liliaceae
genus = "Uvularia "
species = "U. sessilifolia"
binomial = "Uvularia sessilifolia"
binomial_authority = L.Sessile bellwort or wild oats ("Uvularia sessilifolia") is a species of
bellwort native to EasternNorth 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 [KAZUHIKO HAYASHI, SEIJI YOSHIDA, HIDETOSHI KATO, FREDERICK H. UTECH, DENNIS F. WHIGHAM, SHOICHI KAWANOI (1998)Molecular Systematics of the Genus Uvularia and Selected Liliales Based upon mat K and rbc L Gene Sequence DataPlant Species Biology 13 (2-3), 129–146.doi:10.1111/j.1442-1984.1998.tb00254] . Flowering plants often do not set seed, but when plants form seeds they are in three angled fruits.It is used in 8th grade labs.References
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