The base of the leaf of Mountain bellwort is rounded at the base, but that of Wild Oats tapers towards its base. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.nearctica.com/flowers/liliace/uvular/Upuber.htm]
Uvularia grandiflora (large-flowered bellwort), woods, common. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Uvularia sessilifolia (sessile-leaved bellwort), Chesuncook woods, 1853. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Children]
Ferns, bellwort, wild sarsaparilla, all help to soften our footfalls, while overhead the light daily grows more subdued as the leaf-buds break and the leaves unfold. From Wordnik.com. [Some Spring Days in Iowa] Reference
The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
I’ve a plant on my blog I’m trying to ID, might be a bellwort but I’m coming up blank on that lead. From Wordnik.com. [Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden] Reference
The swinging bellwort and the blue-eyed bent. From Wordnik.com. [0 425. Unreturning by Elizabeth Stoddard. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Sessile bellwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Elm, echinacea, skullcap, cohosh, slipper, lobelia, valerian, ginseng, hawthorn, ginger, myrrh, bayberry, ash, kelp, goldenseal, kuzu, moss, bloodroot, bellwort, kola, pear, sileris and blueberry. From Wordnik.com. [Run for your lives!] Reference
The list includes bloodroot, cowslip, houstonia, saxifrage, dandelion, chickweed, cinquefoil, strawberry, mouse-ear, bellwort, dog's-tooth violet, five species of violet proper, and two of anemone. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Inconsistent hyphenation: bell-wort/bellwort blood-root/bloodroot blue-bird/blue bird fly-catchers/flycatchers music-full/musicful root-stock/rootstock whip-poor-will/whippoorwill wood-thrush/woodthrush. From Wordnik.com. [Some Spring Days in Iowa] Reference
This was an interesting botanical locality for one coming from the South to commence with; for many plants which are rather rare, and one or two which are not found at all, in the eastern part of Massachusetts, grew abundantly between the rails, -- as Labrador tea, Kalmia glauca, Canada blueberry (which was still in fruit, and a second time in bloom), Clintonia and Linnaea borealis, which last a lumberer called moxon, creeping snowberry, painted trillium, large-flowered bellwort, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
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