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Each side stem of yellow bellwort produces a single, elongate bell-shaped flower at its tip. The flowers droop on their stem-like pedicels (about 1 " long) such that they open downwards and are often partially hidden by the leaves. Each flower is 1-2" long and consists of six yellow tepals twisted along their length (often with greenish bases), six white stamens with elongated yellow anthers, and a pistil with a three-lobed stigma. The fruit is a three-section capsule that looks (vaguely) like three fat triangles with oval bases, stuck base to base to base. Seeds are freed when the capsule splits. Seed dispersal is added by the attraction of ants to a fleshy, nutrient-rich appendage (an elaiosome) on the seed; the ants carry the seed back to their nest where they eat the elaiosome and abandon the seed.

Uvularia

Uvularia grandiflora

yellow bellwort [Blooms: Apr-May]