Authors: L.  

Botanical Description

Oaksiella sessilifolia). Colony-forming, with stems 20-40cm tall having a few branches above. Leaves narrowly oblong to oval, sessile, 3.5-7.5cm long, pale to glaucous beneath, the margins roughened. Flowers 2-3cm long, pale to straw or greenish-yellow, the narrow tepals shortly and fairly blunt-pointed. Late spring to early summer. Quebec to North Dakota, south to Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma, in woods and scrub, usually in mountains in the south of its range.

a, U. grandiflora; b, U. perfoliata; c, U. sessilifolia;