It grows in woodlands with wet or dry soils.

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.

The native range extends from the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Nova Scotia, west to Texas, The Dakotas and Manitoba .

[1][4][5] Uvularia sessilifolia 'Blizzard' is a cultivated form with misty variegated foliage.