Sessile-leaf Bellwort
Uvularia sessilifolia
Yellow flowers from March into May, worked by mining bees and long-horned bees. It grows wild in 22 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1 ft to 1.2 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow and white, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Bees
- 4 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena dunningi), Long-horned bee (Epimelissodes comptus), Cuckoo bee (Triepeolus remigatus), Mining bee (Andrena bradleyi)
Grows well with
Robin's-plantain
Narrowleaf Sundrops
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Wild Geranium
Bird's-foot Violet
Wild Strawberry
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Facts from the Quercus record for Uvularia sessilifolia.