Solomon's Seal, False Solomon's Seal, Bellworts

Solomon's seal (SS) (Polygonatum)

..... AE lvs hairy on the smaller veins beneath lvs glabrous
3/8-1/2" hairy SS (1. pubescens) moist woods & thickets; s to MD and in mts to n GA .....
1/2-2/3" ..... smooth SS (2. biflorum) moist woods, thickets, & roadsides; MA to FL

False Solomon' Seal (FSS) (Smilacina)

..... AE lvs 1-4, glabrous; lance or elliptical lvs 6 or more, hairy beneath; elliptical lvs spreading in two ranks; oblong 3-6" long
1)fls in racemes: ..... ..... .....
raceme not branched; raceme nearly sessile ..... star-flowered FSS (2.stellata) 1-2' high; fruit striped w/ black; moist, esp sandy soil of woods, shores, & prairies; s to VA .....
raceme long peduncled 3-leaved FSS (3.trifolia) 2-8" high; wet woods & sphagnum bogs; s to NJ ..... .....
f1)ls in planicle: ..... ..... .....
flower cluster branched ..... ..... FSS (1.racemosa) 1-3' high; rich woods; s to GA

Bellwort (Uvularia)

..... AE lvs perfoliate: ..... lvs merely sessile, lvs clasping, but not pierced: .....
..... not downy below whitish-downy below pale beneath green & shining on both sides
fls pale or light yellow bellwort (4.perfoliata) tep glandular-papillose on the inner surface; moist woods, perferring acid soil; s NH to GA, w FL .... sessile-leaved b.w. (2.sessilifolia) styles separate to well below the middle; woods & thickets; NS to SC, w Fl, esp in mts mountain b.w. (1.puberula) style separate only in the upper third or foruth; pine barrens; LI, NJ s.
orange-yellow ..... large-flowered b.w. (3.grandiflora) tep glabrous; rich woods, perderring calcareous so8il; ME to CN, VA, n Ga, AL ..... .....