Sessile bellwort or wild oats (Uvularia sessilifolia) is a species of bellwort native to Eastern North America

North America

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. It grows in woodlands with wet or dry soils.

The strap-like leaves are sessile

Sessility (botany)

In botany, sessility is a characteristic of plants whose flowers or leaves are borne directly from the stem or peduncle, and thus lack a petiole or pedicel...

 on the stem. The flowers are yellow, narrowly bell-shaped, and creamy yellow, blooming in spring.

The leaves have no hairs on the margin and are somewhat narrow, distinguishing this plant from the similar Streptopus. They spread asexually by means of long under ground stolons with most plants in a clonal colony not flowering. Flowering plants often do not set seed, but when plants form seeds they are in three angled fruits.

The native range extends from the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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 west to The Dakotas

The Dakotas

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, south to Florida

Florida

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, and north to Manitoba

Manitoba

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 and Quebec

Quebec

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.