| Description | Large flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) si an attractive plant for the shade garden with pale yellow drooping flowers. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | cold hardy to at least #5 |
| Sunlight | shade, semi-shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | humusy, woodsy, ph 6-7 |
| Flowers | dropping pale yellow bell shaped, six petals that are shiny on the inside, one to three flowers per stem. |
| Leaves | entire, alternate, clasping leaves with whitish downy hair on the underside |
| Stems | spreads by rhizomes |
| Dimensions | up to 24", produces clumps by the spreading of the rhizomes |
| Propagation | division |
| Misc Facts | Uvularia means "wood daffodil". A native wildflower was used by native Americans to make an infusion to relieve backache and to massage sore muscles after a long day in the woods gathering firewood. The young shoots are also reported to be edible when the leaves are stripped off and boiled like asparagus. Formerly placed in the Lily (Liliacaea) family. |
| Notes & Reference | #13-Growing Woodland Plants (Birdseye), #41-Wildflowers of Wisconsin (Stan Teikiela), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz) |
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