Uvularia puberula
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
"Uvularia puberula"¬Ýby George Cooke, published in The Botanical Cabinet by Conrad Loddiges & Sons, 1823. |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Uvularia puberula |
| Common name: | pine barrens bellwort |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 6 - 12" |
| Foliage: | leaves sessile to the stem, stem not appearing to pierce leaf; leaves rounded at base. Stem is slightly hairy. Leaves are similar to U. sessilifolia (Sessile-leaved bellwort) but leaves are green and shining on both sides. |
| Flower: | 1" light yellow |
| Flowering time: | early to late May |
| Habitat: | edges of the swamps in the pine barrens |
| Range in New Jersey: | Records in Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, and Atlantic counties. Current records are in Ocean county. |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | State Endangered, S2, LP, HL |
| Distribution: |  |