Intro: Spring-flowering, slender understory perennial 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.

Inforescence:

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.

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Height: 6-18 in.

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.

bloom table text:

description: Spring-flowering, slender understory perennial 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.

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native range: eastern North America