Uvularia

Family Colchicaceae. Name: derived from the Latin word uvula (little tongue), given for the resemblance to the "tongue" of the drooping narrow flowers.

Description: perennial plants up to 50 cm tall. Rhizome horizontal, branched. Stems usually numerous, thin, sheathed at the base, forked and leafy above. Leaves alternate, sessile or clasping the stem. Flowers usually solitary, more rarely two at the ends of branches, pendent, on long pedicels; the perianth narrowly bell-shaped, of 6 yellow tepals with nectaries at the base, caducous. Staminal filaments thin, shorter than the linear anthers. Ovary three-lobed. Styles fused halfway. Fruit a capsule, triangular or three-winged, dehiscing at the apex along the locules.

They grow in forests in the warm-temperate and subtropical zones of eastern Canada and the USA. The genus contains 5 species. Flowering in spring to early summer.

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