Uvularia grandiflora
Merry Bells, Great Merry Bells, Large Flowered Bellwort.
This wonderful and slightly unusual perennial plant sends up drooping or arching shoots to between 300 and 600mm high from the soil in late spring early summer and quickly produce bright yellow drooping bell shaped flowers with pointed tips.
The base of the bright light green lanceolate leaves wrap around protecting the somewhat tender stem.
It loves to grow in shade with deep moist soil and is ideal for under planting shrubs provided there is not too much root competition.
Propagation is easy by dividing the plant during it winter dormant state or transplanting one of its occasional longer underground shoots. Seed collection and sowing is also successful.
Uvularia is a genus of five species belonging to the Convallariaceae (Lily of the Valley Family) from Eastern North America found in moist but well drained woodlands from Quebec to Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia, Tennessee and Kansas.
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This wonderful and slightly unusual perennial plant sends up drooping or arching shoots to between 300 and 600mm high from the soil in late spring early summer and quickly produce bright yellow drooping bell shaped flowers with pointed tips.
The base of the bright light green lanceolate leaves wrap around protecting the somewhat tender stem.
It loves to grow in shade with deep moist soil and is ideal for under planting shrubs provided there is not too much root competition.
Propagation is easy by dividing the plant during it winter dormant state or transplanting one of its occasional longer underground shoots. Seed collection and sowing is also successful.
Uvularia is a genus of five species belonging to the Convallariaceae (Lily of the Valley Family) from Eastern North America found in moist but well drained woodlands from Quebec to Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia, Tennessee and Kansas.
More photographs are on this Pinterest page Uvularia grandiflora