Uvularia perfoliataL.

perfoliate bellwort

WFO wfo-0000751344 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Ben Smith
fig. a Ben Smith, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203036752
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Larry Jensen
fig. b Larry Jensen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202674778
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. c Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205618452
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200313603
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Daniel Barrows
fig. e Daniel Barrows, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201734249
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Laura Gaudette
fig. f Laura Gaudette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199865281
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Bruce Slater
fig. g Bruce Slater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197670068
Uvularia perfoliata, photographed by Daniel McClosky
fig. h Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197417947

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Flowering n = 1,015 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,015 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anonymos pudica Walter
  • Erythronium americanum f. carolinianum (J.F.Gmel.) Voss
  • Erythronium carolinianum J.F.Gmel.
  • Uvularia caroliniana (J.F.Gmel.) Wilbur
  • Uvularia flava Sm.
  • Uvularia perfoliata var. major Michx.
  • Uvularia perfoliata var. minor Michx.
  • Uvularia pudica Fernald

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.