Bellwort is also known as Wild Oats or Sessile Bellwort.

Plant is an upright with angled stems, bearing one or two creamy-yellow, drooping flowers at the top. Height is usually no more than 18 inches. Preferred habitat is woods, thickets and on rich, moist slopes. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Leaves are oblong, about two to three inches long, oblong, light green in color above and whitish below.

Flowers are about one inch long, narrowly bell-shaped with two petal-like sepals; three petals and six stamens. Flowers occur in the spring.

Fruit is a three-angled capsule similar to beechnuts.

This woodland wildflower has a relative, Small Bellwort (often referred to as Perfoliate Bellwort), whose stem appears to pierce the leaf (clasping). The interior surface of the flower is roughened with small glands. A larger version, L. grandiflora, has bright yellow flowers and clasping leaves. At one time these plants were thought to be good for treating throat ailments because the drooping flowers resembled the uvula; the soft lobe hanging into the throat from the soft palate