Ring that bell

[bobpbx]

Sometimes you get lucky....these are difficult to find.

 

[turtle]

 

[manumuskin]

What are they? Looks ike something deer would munch on.

 

[johnnyb]

My guess: Pine Barrens Bellwort- Uvularia puberula - not in Boyd's, Newcomb's, or Peterson's field guides. I've only seen it one place (thanks, Mark Szutarski) and I don't think this is that place. Believe it's ranked S2 here in Jersey, not your common everyday plant.

 

[johnnyb]

P.S. to above post: great pix, Bob. If identification is right, it's in Lily family.

 

[bobpbx]

P.S. to above post: great pix, Bob. If identification is right, it's in Lily family.

Yes Johnny. And it certainly is in Howard's field guide.

 

[oji]

Yes Johnny. And it certainly is in Howard's field guide.

maybe listed as Uvularia pudica, a synonym

 

[Teegate]

I found it in the same area as Bob did a few years back. But then again it may not be the same plant. Looks different.

 

[bobpbx]

I suspect that is young smilax (greenbriar) Guy.

 

[Teegate]

So somehow my records are wrong. Talk to you later about that.

 

[oji]

It looks like it(post bloom).

 

[bobpbx]

So somehow my records are wrong. Talk to you later about that.

Did I tell you that was Bellwort when you found it Guy? If so, my fault. Chalk it up my inexperience at the time.

Yesterday, I found more at the FPP. Here is one without a bloom next to yours. I think yours is half the size, but you can see the difference in the way the leaves are attached to the stem.

 

[Teegate]

It wasn't you Bob