Wild oats or sessile bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) is a very common herb throughout the watershed, but it is more common toward the lower elevations in the hardwood forest and less abundant in the spruce-fir-white birch high elevation community. It is a clonal species and spreads by rhizomes in the lower part of the forest floor or the upper mineral soil.  See photo below.

Average aboveground biomass      =     0.73  g/m²

Web page created April 2001
by Thomas Siccama and Ellen Denny