Abstract: A parental plant may alter the phenotypic expression of its offspring. This altering is referred to as maternal effects. If the environment is responsible for the change in phenotype, it is referred to as maternal environmental effects. Maternal environmental effects greatly influence germination in the small woodland herb Campanula americana. Seed dispersal is important to maternal effects because the offspring environment can only be predicted from the maternal environment if the seed shadows have been described. Passively dispersed seeds tend to fall near the maternal plant, limiting dispersal distance and presenting offspring with the same environment as the maternal plant. Secondary dispersal was described for seeds placed at an inclined site and a level site. Seeds were found to move farther at incline sites than at level sites, and in more in the downhill direction at level sites. A seed cafeteria to test for secondary dispersers found that seeds were taken from uncaged treatments at night more than uncaged or caged treatments during the day. This indicated rodent activity. Mice were trapped using C. americana seeds and the seeds were recovered and allowed to germinate. It was found that mice can disperse C. americana seeds and they may cause the seeds to germinate more quickly than uneaten ones.