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Camas
Camassia quamash
45.7139, -121.385
Field Notes
Description:
Six-petaled blue-purple flower with yellow anthers; multiple flowers on a tall spike. Linear basal leaves. Onion-like bulb provided a staple food for native Americans along the Columbia River and western Rocky Mountains.
Habitat:
Blooms in moist meadows in spring, which dry out as summer progresses.
Notes:
Plant first described for science by Lewis and Clark. In June, 1806 Lewis wrote: "the quamash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water."
In this photo, drifts of camas grow on grassy slopes above the Columbia River, in Catherine Creek Natural Area, Washington.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMarch 30, 2020
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